Racist rental requirement

FMT:

Man claims he’s evicted from apartment because of ‘wrong race’

WhatsApp messages from the owner forwarded by the apartment’s management to the tenant

SUBANG JAYA: An Indian renter has been kicked out of his Subang Jaya apartment less than two weeks after moving in, with the management saying the owner prefers a Chinese tenant.

David (not his real name) told FMT he was given just hours to vacate his apartment after the management forwarded him several WhatsApp messages from the owner asking him to leave.

“I had heard about this happening before, but it’s still shocking that it’s happening to me,” he said, calling it “ridiculous”. He said he felt “sad and disappointed”.

After sharing his story on Facebook, David found scores of netizens coming to his support.

“People need to be aware that this is still happening in Malaysia,” he said, adding that he had sought legal advice and intended to seek compensation.

This comes less than two weeks after Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said a law to address racial discrimination in the property market would be brought to Parliament early next year.

FMT has contacted the property management company, which confirmed David’s story.

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kaytee notes:

Alas, such a racist mentality vis-a-vis renting houses exist in many countries. Last I read of such a sad practice was in Fiji where there have been bad race relationship between native Fijians and Indians for decades, not unalike (in fact, worse than) the suspicious relationship between Malays and Chinese in Malaysia.

Some ads in newspapers on renting was eff-ing blatant eg. "Interested parties of X race need NOT apply", wakakaka. 

In Fiji then (some years ago) the demographic ratio between natives and Indians was 50:50. And at one time there was rumours (maybe only 'rumours', wakakaka) of a very right-wing organisation in India with a strange moniker that sounded like "Research and Analysis Something" that wanted to send arms to Indian groups in Fiji, but the Fijian Army (trained by Australia) neutralised that whiff of insurgency potential.

(then) Colonel Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka  

The Great Bumiputera (from 'India'? wakakaka) was even rumoured to be an advisor to the Fijian PM [Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka{?} 1992-1999 of the Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA), a Fijian ethno-nationalist party like UMNO] on many aspects of "bumiputera" rights and policies. I wonder whether MahaBumiRajah warned Rabuka about the danger of an Indian 'Shaolin'?

Thien Hou Temple, KL, where Ops Lalang was required to deal with alleged 'naughty' plotting within

Mafulat-ish Manchu Maha-Bomoh claimed Chinese history indicated it was not "healthy" for Chinese groups to meet & plot at a Chinese temple, wakakaka

But then following Rabuka, an Indian-Fijian, Mahendra Chaudhry (Leader, Fiji Labour Party), became PM but only for a very short period (1999-2000). But at least, the Indians in Fiji achieved more than Chinese in Malaysia in having one of them become a PM - mind you, Ling Liong Sik might argue he was once PM of Malaysia for a day, wakakaka.

I wonder whether the Fijian racist rental requirement is still in play today?