{"id":18585,"date":"2017-07-20T19:26:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=18585"},"modified":"2017-07-20T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T14:50:09","slug":"rebuilding-the-kmc-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=18585","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding the KMC flats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Government and Housing\u00a0Minister , Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian\u2019s wish to upgrade the lives of the KMC flat residents prompted him to go for a first dialogue session with the residents there\u00a0on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0\u00a0the dialogue session, Dr. Sim said his main objective is to rebuilt the KMC flats to improve, upgrade the lives of the people so that they can have a better living and safer environment.<\/p>\n<p>He told the residents the building is over 60 years and in 2011 when there was repair and maintenance work done, it cost the Federal government RM10 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Old building are hard to maintain so in the long run it is better to\u00a0tear the whole thing down and build new buildings. We will always accommodate the tenants and will work out ways how to give them a fair deal either renting to them for a certain number of years and letting them buy it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim said they want all the residents to understand their good intention and there will be more dialogue sessions in the future. He said once there is majority agreement among the tenants, they can bring in engineers and architects on how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>He then showed an example of a KL building which was in a dilapidated situation and the DBKL torn down the old building to be replaced with a high rise one. \u201cIf KL can do it, we can too as our Chief Minister has said we should rejuvenate the Chinese area as the Malay areas has been going on good progress,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The rebuilding \u00a0would also ease shortage of housing in the city. In Sarawak, 60,000 people wanted to have proper housing and this would be an opportunity for those who have no houses in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim also answered queries from the tenants.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, there are 411 Chinese, 61 Dayaks, 41 Malays and 4 Indian families staying in the KMC flats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed-15.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18586\" alt=\"unnamed (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed-15.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed-15.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed-15-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed-15-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed-22.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18587\" alt=\"unnamed (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed-22.jpg\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed-22.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed-22-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed-22-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18588\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed7.jpg\" width=\"3456\" height=\"2304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed7.jpg 3456w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/unnamed7-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3456px) 100vw, 3456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Government and Housing\u00a0Minister , Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian\u2019s wish to upgrade the lives of the KMC flat residents prompted him to go for a first dialogue session with the residents there\u00a0on Tuesday night. At\u00a0\u00a0the dialogue session, Dr. Sim said his main objective is to rebuilt the KMC flats to improve, upgrade the lives of the people so that they can have a better living and safer environment. He told the residents the building is over 60 years and in 2011 when there was repair and maintenance work<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=18585\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18589,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions\/18589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}