Umno And Dap Divided Over Urban Renewal Bill


 


Opposition to the proposed law on urban renewal took on a new dimension as two major factions within the Madani coalition appeared on opposing ends of the spectrum.
DAP is championing the bill while Umno is opposed to it in its current form.
In the latest statement from Umno, chief of the special task force to improve the bill, Johari Abdul Ghani, said it should be referred to a special parliamentary committee before it is passed.
He added that various findings have been gathered, and these will be discussed with Umno president and Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, to review how public views can be incorporated.
ADS“As (government bloc) MPs, we cannot be fighting among ourselves, and I myself am a minister. Therefore, we will bring this bill and discuss it with Zahid. He will then inform the prime minister,” Johari (above) said.
Two contentious issues
Public opposition to the bill, which is also known as the URA, centres around two things: lowering the threshold for approvals from owners and the excessive powers that will be given to the authorities in deciding which projects will be approved.
The government has too much power under the act. If the bill is passed as is, a new property czar will be born - Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming, who will head a powerful council overseeing, approving, and selecting developers for all urban renewal projects, as I said previously.
Opposition leader Hamzah Zainudin speaking against the urban renewal bill at a protest in Kuala Lumpur, Oct 4, 2025.Amazingly, the bill discriminates against owners if they come up with their own plans for renewal. Reports state that Clause 19(1)(a) provides that if proprietors voluntarily apply to federal or state executive committees to initiate an urban renewal project, unanimous consent will be required.
But for projects initiated by the federal or state executive committees, that is, for approved developers, the consent thresholds are much lower:
80 percent for buildings 30 years old or less
75 percent for buildings over 30 years old
51 percent for abandoned or unsafe buildings
This rule is blatantly unfair to the owners, making it nearly impossible for them to go ahead with the urban renewal of a property, no matter the age or whether it is abandoned.
Unfair clause sneaked in
Why one rule for owners and another for developers - developers preapproved by the state or federal executive committees? How could such a clearly discriminatory clause be sneaked into the bill?
ADSCurrent rules under Section 57(1) of the Strata Titles Act require unanimous consent from all parcel owners for the termination of a strata scheme, which is a prerequisite for demolition or redevelopment. Even one dissenting owner can block the process.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming (middle) holding photos of dilapidated properties with potential for urban renewalThis provision has long been criticised for hindering redevelopment, especially in ageing or unsafe buildings. Most commentators don’t oppose lowering the threshold but want it to be higher, starting with 95 percent for properties aged 30 years or less.
The other thing that has become clear is that the proposed act is not restricted only to properties under the Strata Titles Act.
It applies to urban properties, including landed residential homes, shoplots, commercial buildings, public housing, and abandoned or unsafe structures, as long as they fall within designated urban renewal zones.
That means almost nothing is safe from redevelopment in major urban areas.
Nothing is sacrosanct
It’s carte blanche for property developers; nothing is sacrosanct as long as the necessary thresholds are reached. No one’s property, located anywhere in designated zones, is safe from the clawing hands of developers.
A high-rise building can be approved overnight where once stood a row of terrace houses, or a group of bungalows, or semi-detached houses, or any combination of those, so long as there is 80 percent approval.
In my earlier comment, I focused on other aspects over and above the threshold limits, which are also very important. Vesting power effectively in the hands of the minister of local government and housing gives much room for patronage and corruption.
A much better thing to do is to form an Urban Redevelopment Commission to handle this professionally, with set guidelines and an act of Parliament to govern it.
I wrote: “Instead, the power for deciding redevelopment comes out of the double-barrelled single gun - the two barrels being the Federal Executive Committee (FEC) and the smaller State Executive Committee (SEC). The SEC must consult the big brother FEC, always.”
The killer is that, per Section 5(2) of the proposed URA, the FEC will have the minister as chairperson. That at this point would be Nga, the rising voice of the DAP and a strong advocate of the URA, which property developers love. He would steer the FEC.
That is likely to put Umno, the unlikely opponent of the URA, along with much of the opposition and many within PKR, at loggerheads with DAP, which has become over the last few years a strong advocate of developers at the expense of the small man.
Ironically, it puts Umno in a better light than the DAP in this fight. How times have changed! - Mkini
P GUNASEGARAM says moral compasses change directions when people forget their roots.
The views expressed here are those of the author/contributor and do not necessarily represent the views of MMKtT.


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