Tengku Adnan suggests rebranding of PPR houses

PUTRAJAYA: Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor today suggested that affordable housing projects, such as the People's Housing Programme (PPR) be rebranded to give them a new image and change the people's mindset on such houses.
The move, he said, should include improving facilities, like installing closed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) to bring positive changes, including psychologically, for the occupants.
"We don't want the houses to be called cheap house (rumah murah), perhaps 'rumah rakyat ceria' or council home, so the occupants will not feel they are staying in cheap houses.
"Furthermore, the houses are now bigger, measuring at least 750 sq ft, not like before, which was 500 sq ft," he told reporters after officiating the ground-breaking for a multi-storey car park at Precinct 9, here today.
The four-storey car par project, to commence in July and expected to take two years to complete, cost RM15 million. — Bernama