Low cost flat residents who were forced to live in tents after their homes started cracking are finally allocated land and can look forward to new homes.

 

The Taman Permata residents were sent running out of their homes in Dengkil in June 2013 when the low-cost flat they were living in started trembling and pillars started cracking.

 

Housing and Urban Well-being Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan said the Selangor government had allocated 30 acres of land in Ampar Tenang at a cost of RM13 million and the federal government will build new homes there.

 

However, construction can only start after all 400 heads of households sign the agreement to move to the single-storey terrace homes.

 

“To date, only 330 heads of households have signed the agreement,” he said.

 

He said this in Parliament in response to a question by Hanipa Maidin (PAS-Sepang) during Question Time on Thursday.

 

About 20 families, including children and the elderly, had camped out near the flats for months after the June 2013 incident, which they described felt like an earthquake.

 

Others rented rooms in nearby houses, out of fear that the building will collapse.

 

All former plantation workers, they sold their homes and moved to Taman Permata 14 years ago to make way for the construction of the federal administrative capital of Putrajaya.