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View all search resultsCity to build 500 apartment towers in 2015
The Jakarta administration plans to build 500 towers of low-cost apartments with a total capacity of around 50,000 units to accommodate residents who will be relocated from riverbanks to make way for river normalization programs
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he Jakarta administration plans to build 500 towers of low-cost apartments with a total capacity of around 50,000 units to accommodate residents who will be relocated from riverbanks to make way for river normalization programs.
'We lack low-cost apartment buildings to relocate squatters and residents living by the riverbanks. I have asked the Housing Agency to build 500 rusunawa towers in the city in 2015,' Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama told reporters at City Hall on Monday.
He said the city currently had 15,000 low-cost apartments.
Separately, head of the Housing Agency Yonathan Pasodung said the apartment towers would be at least 20 floors high. Each tower would cost roughly Rp 20 billion (US$1.6 million) to Rp 22 billion.
