PENANG: Residents are unfazed and carrying on with their daily lives despite the warning that their five-storey walk-up flats in Bayan Baru are unsafe for occupation.

Most of them interviewed said they were not leaving as it was impossible to move out of their units overnight.

Many shrugged and said they had nowhere to stay when asked if they were not afraid that the building might collapse.

Halimah Lazim, 45, who has been living there for the past 20 years, said cracks in the wall in her unit caused her floor to be flooded every time it rained heavily.

The part-time factory canteen helper said the wall was made of hollow-cement bricks.

“I have complained to the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) numerous times, and each time after my complaint they would visit the unit, take some photographs and nothing is done after that.

“My husband has been paralysed for the past 10 years and if anything should happen, I can't even run out of the house with him,'' she said, adding that they needed a place nearby to move out to.

Housewife Rani Kaur said that although she was scared to stay in her two-room flat, she had yet to find a suitable place to move to.