Troops can expect better housing
19/09/2006 The Star

PETALING JAYA: Armed forces personnel in the Klang Valley can look forward to better housing thanks to nine projects by the Defence Ministry.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said high rental rates in the Klang Valley had forced armed forces personnel to take up cheap accommodation that did not give them the quality of life that they deserved.

He said it also did not augur well for forces if the personnel were forced to rent squatter units as they could not afford proper housing.

Najib, who is also Defence Minister, said the projects to provide 6,963 units of apartments, terrace houses and bungalows in the Klang Valley were initiated under the Eighth Malaysia Plan and would continue under the Ninth plan.

Najib, who was speaking at the launch of the newly completed housing units at the Subang TUDM Base, said the projects would provide housing for personnel at the Kementah, Wardieburn, Sungai Besi, Jalan U-Thant, Pasifik and Subang TUDM Base camps.