{"id":17224,"date":"2017-05-09T17:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=17224"},"modified":"2017-05-09T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T10:06:19","slug":"dr-sim-affordable-housing-his-top-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=17224","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sim: affordable housing his top priority."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Local Government and Housing Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian has placed affordable housing as his top priority.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim who was recently appointed as Minister of Housing, said this was the policy of Chief Minister and former Housing Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg and therefore, it should be continued.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the construction of more affordable housing units would address the need of the ordinary people, especially young individuals and couples, for decent houses as present private housing was out of reach for the poorer income group.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sim, who is Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) president, said he would also be looking into the squatters issue so that every family in urban centres would have basic houses to stay in.<\/p>\n<p>He added that housing is an important ministry because there are so many issues that we need to address and this afternoon, I\u2019m here to hear the issues from the officers in the ministry so that I can get these issues on the top agenda of our Ministry,\u201d he said. He added that he would act on his action after getting an understanding on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image114.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17225\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image114.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image114.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image114-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image29.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17226\" alt=\"image2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image29.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image29.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image29-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image38.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17227\" alt=\"image3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image38.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image38.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/image38-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Local Government and Housing Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian has placed affordable housing as his top priority. Dr. Sim who was recently appointed as Minister of Housing, said this was the policy of Chief Minister and former Housing Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg and therefore, it should be continued. He said that the construction of more affordable housing units would address the need of the ordinary people, especially young individuals and couples, for decent houses as present private housing was out of reach for the poorer<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=17224\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17228,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17224\/revisions\/17228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}