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Gerakan supports government step to enforce law on errant developers

Cheah Soon Hai says this step will protect house buyers

 
 

Press statement by

Gerakan Central Bureau on Environment, Safety and Quality of Life Chairman

Dr. Cheah Soon Hai

 
 

14 November 2012

 
 

Gerakan Central Bureau on Environment, Safety and Quality of Life Chairman, Dr. Cheah Soon Hai commended the Housing and Local Government Ministry to deem it a criminal act on errant developers who abandoned their housing project under the recently amended Housing Development (Control and Licensing) 1966.

 
 

"It is about time the government start to use the stick on errant developers as buying a house involves one's life-saving."

 
 

Dr. Cheah, also Kedah Derga state assemblyman voiced that the government should step in to assist the completion of current abandoned housing projects to prevent it from being an eyesore and places for drug addicts to gather other than relieving the misery of the house buyers.

 
 

"I propose that the government implement the "build then sell" system to provide another layer of protection on buyers as through this system we can see which housing developer is truly capable to complete a project therefore preventing the possibility of it going bust within a night."

 
 

He also said that more incentives should be given out to private developers willing to step in to complete an abandoned housing project to provide a win-win situation for the society.