Ong: Let’s deliver on housing
25/04/2007 The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: All related parties should work together to make the Government-announced initiatives, aimed at cutting bureaucracy and improving the property sector, a successful one.

“Without any of the players in the team, the housing delivery system will not be successful. Let us all together make this system work,” said the Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting.

In his opening speech at the roadshow on improving housing delivery system yesterday, he said all related parties, including the Government, its agencies, departments and developers would make a complete team to improve the housing delivery system.

Ong, who is MCA president, welcomed suggestions to make the system more efficient.

On April 13, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced the comprehensive changes for the property development sector, as part of his move to improve the public delivery system.

Among the initiatives announced were the setting-up of one-stop centres in every state for fast-track approval for housing projects, replacing the Certificate of Fitness for Occupancy (CFO) with the Certificate of Completion and Compliance (CCC) and giving incentives to developers who adopt the Build-Then-Sell (BTS) concept.