'We can't stop luxury homes, M'sia not a communist nation'

comments     Zulaikha Zulkifli     Published     Updated

Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan said the government cannot prevent developers from building luxury properties because the country is not practising a communist economy.

"We can't do like that – preventing them from building houses. This is not a communist economy, this is a democratic country.

"They (developers) have a right to build (what they want). We cannot stop them because this is an open country," he told a press conference in Putrajaya today.

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