IN 1982, 98 families working in the Bukit Kiara rubber estate were displaced to wooden longhouses in Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI). The land had been acquired by the federal government to build a golf course.

Despite the promise of new houses within five years of relocation, the residents are still living there more than three decades later.

The community is now in conflict over a high-rise development in Bukit Kiara that threatens their home.

One group backs the project in the hopes of receiving new homes while the other party feels that it will destroy the tight-knit relationship fostered in the longhouses.

After all these years, the residents’ dreams of a new home remain unfulfilled. - January 3, 2018.