Construction of affordable houses or People's Housing Projects (PPR) will be made compulsory in the development of housing projects in Kuala Lumpur, said Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

He said the government’s aim of providing more affordable houses for the people had not been achieved, hence the need to set such a condition on housing developers so that there would be more affordable houses to meet the needs of the poor.

The prime minister said housing is considered a serious problem in the federal capital, with 3,000 applications for affordable housing or PPR received in a year, while the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) was...