The township of Petaling Jaya is witnessing a growing number of abandoned houses.
In fact, the Petaling Jaya City Council had declared 55 abandoned houses within the area to be structurally unsafe, said state executive councillor Datuk Teng Chang Khim.
Over in Bukit Gasing, five such homes had been voluntarily demolished by owners, while 12 units in Section 1, 1A, 2 and 12 were deemed structurally unsafe.
He said this in reply to R. Rajiv’s (DAP-Bukit Gasing) query as to the number of abandoned houses in the city as well as the breakdown for said houses at his constituency.
Rajiv noted that Teng’s brief reply did not address the measure to be taken on such abandoned houses.
“We need to know what exactly will be done to these houses and what is the council’s role,” he said.
“Perhaps signage informing residents of the unsafe structure should be put up.”
He revealed that residents had complained of the matter for quite some time, as they were worried for their safety and were uncomfortable of living next to an empty house.
“No one wants to stay next to an abandoned house and you do not even know who lived there…There could be drug addicts or even snakes,” said Rajiv.
In Section 12, for instance, 46 of the 600 houses there are abandoned.
With this, Rajiv urged the state to issue a directive for local councils to address the issue of abandoned houses.
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Farah Wahida, Editor of PropertyGuru, wrote this story. To contact her about this or other stories email farahwahida@propertyguru.com.my
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