Mon State government has announced it will change the location of a Mawlamyine Township affordable housing project due to problems with road access and readiness for construction at the original site.

Mon State’s Minister of Planning, Finance, Immigration and Population U Wunna Kyaw told the Mon State Hluttaw on June 21 that the project will be relocated from Min Ywa Village to Kyar Inn Village.

But the project will now be built on just over 21 acres of land as opposed to the original 44 acres of land.

“We will try to build it as fast as possible since the Hluttaw has set down a decision for the relocation," U Wunna Kyaw said.

"This project will be built from the 2017-2018 fiscal year budget so we will try to finish it within the fiscal year.”

State Hluttaw MP from Paung Constituency 1 U Tun Min Aung said “it’s good that the government wants to change the location due to the land condition [of the original site]".

The Mon State Hluttaw enacted a law to allocate five billion kyat for the Min Ywar Village affordable housing project in March.

According to U Wunna Kyaw, this is the first time Mon State will use state budget funds to build affordable housing.