ALOR SETAR, Jan 25  -- The Housing and Local Government Ministry is to build 38,000 units of houses under the People's Housing Project under the 10th Malaysia Plan (2011-2015), Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung said today.

He said many of the houses are under construction and they are being built in Sabah, Selangor, Pahang and Kelantan. "We also had an application from Kedah but the request could not be met because no land is available. If the state government provides the land, we will build the houses there," he told reporters after the presentation of 1Malaysia People's Aid (BR1M) vouchers, here.

Chor said the completed houses would be handed over to the local authorities or the state government to manage the sale and rental. He said the value of each house is between RM100,000 and RM130,000. "The sale price is only RM35,000 and the rental RM124 a month," he said.-BERNAMA