INSIDE TELLING IT AS IT IS The wedge between page Covid fears for page two titans 2 expectant mum 5 HANDS-ON ... Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah and Tengku Panglima Muda Tengku Ahmad Ismail Mu’adzam Shah help to prepare meals for flood victims during their visit to the Sri Damai relief centre in Kuantan, Pahang yesterday. With them Story on is Pahang Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail. – BERNAMAPIX — page 4 ON THURSDAY JANUARY 7, 2021 No. 7696 PP 2644/12/2012 (031195) www.thesundaily.my Too few homes for poor █ BY SHIVANI SUPRAMANI Analyst Jason Loh Seong Wei described the
[email protected] situation as “dire”, particularly in the Klang oFor millions of B40 urbanites, getting an Valley, despite the high concentration of ETALING JAYA: For the urban poor, cheaper People’s Housing Project flats, either acquiring an affordable home is next to affordable house is quite impossible rented out or sold under a “rent-to-own” impossible, even if they have the concept. money. The demand has gone through Loh, who heads the social, law and human Pthe roof, so to speak. and below is categorised as “affordable”. An urbanites, that is all they can afford. rights unit at think-tank Emir Available data shows that for every 93 analysis, based on available data, shows that in Urban poverty remains a big issue in Research, said the country cannot persons among the urban poor who can scrape urban centres, only about 40,000 homes fall into Malaysia.