Forty people waited almost five hours at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in Putrajaya today to demand a meeting to discuss a 1Malaysia Housing Programme (PR1MA) housing loan proposal.
The group, which consisted of 36 Cameron Highlands residents and four Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) members, arrived at the PMO at noon today.
“We have come today to request an appointment with the prime minister or any officer to discuss our proposal.
“We will not move until we get an appointment letter (at least),” PSM’s Cameron Highlands secretary R Suresh Kumar told Malaysiakini when contacted today, adding that three letters previously sent to the PMO went unreplied.
The group left at about 5pm after Suresh was promised that an appointment letter would be sent to him tomorrow by Mohd Azizol, personal assistant to Jailani Ngah, the prime minister’s political secretary for Pahang.
PSM is proposing that the government allow certain groups of low-income earners to apply for PR1MA units in Tanah Rata at a heavily subsidised rate - 50 percent of the original price. It is also asking that applicants be given government loans to pay for the units.
The current PR1MA scheme requires applicants to pay a 10 percent down-payment and obtain a commercial bank loan to pay the remaining 90 percent.
Suresh said as many as 42 families had approached PSM for help as they wanted in on PR1MA but did not qualify for commercial bank loans. Twenty-two of the families were represented today.
“These applicants are from the B40 group (bottom 40 percent of households with RM3,900 or less combined monthly income).
“They are drivers, security guard, odd-job workers,” he claimed.- Mkini
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