Longhouse residents want fair price on PPR flats

Jinjang Utara longhouse residents gathering to discuss the course of action after receiving DBKL letters suggesting the purchase price of RM75,000 each for PPR units allocated for them. — Photos: SHAARI CHEMAT/The Star

IT WAS only supposed to be for two years, but 24 years on, some 900 families continue to live in their crammed 400 sq ft ramshackled units at the Jinjang Utara longhouse in Kuala Lumpur.

These families were part of the Government’s squatter eradication programme in the 1990s and were relocated with the promise of being offered low-cost housing as permanent homes.