PORT DICKSON (Sept 26): Negeri Sembilan has made it compulsory for new housing developments to comprise 50% which are affordable, with their prices being set by the state government, Bernama reported yesterday.

Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan was speaking to reporters after presenting keys to owners of Type A Taman Sunggala Hartamas affordable homes and letters of ownership to the owners of Teluk Kemang III People’s Housing here yesterday, Bernama reported.

The Type A affordable homes in Taman Sunggala Hartamas are priced at RM75,000 per unit and only 102 people were eligible for the scheme.

"I will propose to the state exco meeting on Wednesday (Oct 27) that the percentage of Type A housing be raised [by] 20%, and to reduce the percentage of the Type C housing which are priced at RM400,000 and below, to 15%," Mohamad was reported by Bernama as saying.