PR families are not eligible for housing subsidies that Singaporeans enjoy. They are not allowed to buy a new flat from HDB or enjoy any housing grant. However, PRs need to have a home in Singapore. Therefore, they are allowed to buy properties from the open market, including HDB resale flats.
Mah Bow Tan, National Development Minister
Maybe PRs can be housed on some nearby offshore islands. HDB can build some high-rise kelongs for them. A win-win situation for all.
Singaporeans deserved to be screwed again and again.
You guys seem to enjoy it quietly but making a lot of noises just to put up a show for foreigners to pity and sympathize with you.
Singaporeans who willingly elected the PAP garment has nothing to complain about.
YOU DESERVE IT! SO SHUT UP!
let us assume for a pretext that the pr status may only be granted to true expatriates (those who actually benefit the economy, not the workers in our service sector, the construction site, etc.). the fact that these people, usually workers for mncs, would be earning a higher-than-normal income is logical, yes? which, in other words, makes irrefutable the statement: prs can afford private housing (condos, terrace, whatnot).
question is: why does the government not limit the supply of hdb housing to these people? well, the answer is almost staring at us; our basic assumption, that the pr status is accorded to professionals, is erroneous. they can afford neither a house, or a private apartment, and have to rely on public housing (which for them is supplied on the resale market), driving prices up for the citizens.
on their side, nothing is wrong; they are just earnest, hardworking fellows eager at earning their keep. they make sure they stretch every dollar in pursuit of a brighter future.
the citizens aren’t in the wrong too. naturally, with rocketing housing prices, who wouldn’t be angry? but vent chagrin not on the prs, but on the people who approved these people their status, on the people who, of all things, did not foresee this outcome.