TACKLING the problem of abandoned buildings and unoccupied properties is not confined to the Penang Island City Council (MBPP), as local authorities in other parts of the country are in a similar predicament, “Landed properties worth RM500mil left abandoned” (The Star, June 27; online at https://bit.ly/3a1czJl).
Residential and commercial buildings have been left in a dilapidated state for years, the compounds overgrown with thick undergrowth and infested with mosquitoes, snakes and monitor lizards.
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