Government backbencher Sim Tze Tzin has reaffirmed the necessity of Putrajaya’s proposed Urban Renewal Act (URA) as a method to alleviate the urban poor community’s woes. 

Taking aim at Perikatan Nasional’s grouses claiming that the potential legislation will marginalise urban Malays, the PKR lawmaker highlighted that impoverished families - regardless of race - were already disempowered before the establishment of the URA.