
No place to go: Affected tenants showing their eviction notices and appeal letters to Ooi (second left). — CHA N BOON KAI/The Star
GEORGE TOWN: Scores of residents are now staring at a bleak future after being locked out from their homes at the People’s Housing Projects (PPR) in Rifle Range.
Although they have been given a lifeline until today, many of them fear they have no other places to go after being served with an eviction notice.
Indian national Jamrahth Nisha Hajah Mydeen, 28, said she had been staying at the unit with her mother and three siblings for more than 16 years.
“Where should we go now? We don’t have relatives and only one of my three siblings is working now.
“We cannot afford to rent another place,” she said during a press conference organised by Gerakan Kebun Bunga coordinator Ooi Zhi Yi at the block yesterday. Read more