SEGAMAT: The federal government remains committed to safeguarding the welfare of civil servants by providing affordable housing to ease their cost-of-living burden.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the proactive move aims to offset rising property prices while ensuring that public servants have access to homeownership.
Anwar, who is also Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman, said to realise this aspiration, the government plans to optimise the use of idle or unused land owned by government agencies for affordable housing projects.
"Customs land, Immigration land, and excess school land, if available, we will build low-cost housing, at least for civil servants," he said at the Temu Anwar programme in Kampung Jawa here today.
Also present were PKR vice-president and joint election director Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari, Deputy National Unity Minister R. Yuneswaran, Johor PKR chairman Datuk Seri Dr Zaliha Mustafa, as well as two PH candidates in the 16th Johor state election – Jalex Lee En Xiang (Pemanis) and Mohd Afif Abd Hamid (Kemelah).
Anwar said the initiative is already underway in several states, including Johor, where 1,700 units of low-cost housing have been approved and are under construction.
The event is part of Anwar's campaign tour for the state election, where PH is fielding candidates in all 56 seats, comprising 20 from PKR, 19 from Amanah, and 17 from DAP.
A total of 172 candidates are contesting in the election, with early voting scheduled for July 7 and polling day set for July 11. - FMT
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