Why is DAP silent on higher Bumi housing quota?

Some local councils have raised the Bumiputera housing quota but the Pakatan-led Selangor government has been silent on the matter.

PETALING JAYA: Selangor Wanita MCA wants to know why DAP and PKR are keeping quiet on the raising of the Bumiputera housing quota by some local councils from 30% to 50% and even 70% in some cases.

Its chairman, Ong Chong Swen, said DAP had always been ranting against the 30% Bumiputera quota, yet now that the party along with PAS and PKR hold the majority in the Selangor state assembly, they were not doing anything about it.

It has been reported that the Real Estate and Housing Development Association (Rehda) chairman had said that some local councils in urban areas such as Petaling Jaya and Subang Jaya were arbitrarily raising the Bumiputera housing quota to 50% and even 70%.

“Why are the assemblymen not liaising with the Petaling Jaya City Council and Subang Jaya Municipal Council to safeguard the interests of non-Bumiputeras who intend to buy their first house in these suburbs?” she asked.

“None of the DAP and PKR state assemblymen are raising this issue in the state assembly,” she added.

Ong said wage earners were finding it difficult to buy a house now because of skyrocketing prices and the excessive race-based quota in dense urban constituencies further deprived non-Bumiputeras of owning a home.

“Depriving non-Bumiputeras of the right to buy property is nothing new since Pakatan took over the state government.

“As practised in Kedah under PAS before the general election where the Bumiputera housing quota was enlarged from 30% to 50% and 70%, it is disappointing that Selangor too, is following the housing restriction path,” she said.