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90,000 People Apply For Houses Under MyHome Scheme
9 Aug 2015
TRONOH, Aug 9 (Bernama) -- The National Housing Department received about 90,000 applications from people interested in buying houses under the MyHome housing scheme nationwide.
Its deputy-director-general (Development), Rohani Omar, said they received 98 applications from housing developers to build 108 projects involving 26,461 units since it was launched in April.
"The ministry has approved 29 developers involving 31 projects with about 10,000 housing units. The most applicants were from Selangor followed by Johor, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak and Perak," he told reporters after launching Seri Andaman Fasa 1 MyHome project at Bandar Universiti here, today.
For Perak, the ministry received applications from 10 project developers involving 1,357 housing units.
Rohani said the applications of three companies had been approved for projects in Perak involving 247 housing units.
"Seri Andaman Fasa 1 is the first project in Perak. The approval was for 186 single storey terrace houses with a minimum area of ??850 square feet to be build by Agro-Mod Industries Sdn Bhd."
MyHome scheme is one of the government's initiatives to enable buyers to receive subsidy of up to RM30,000 to buy selected homes at low cost price.
The scheme, announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak when tabling Budget 2014 in parliament in October 2013, was to encourage developers build more low medium-cost houses.
MyHome scheme is for first time house buyers with monthly household income of between RM3,000 and RM6,000.