PAYM forum: Now I know why flats are “affordable”? (Part 2)

Apr. 14 | This is the second part of my report on the People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM) policy forum @ Jurong GRC, which took place on Sunday (11 April). The discussion, entitled “HDB Flats: Towering Pinnacles, sky-high prices?”, was attended by...

PAYM policy forum: now I know why flats are “affordable”? (Part 1)

Apr. 12 | I attended the People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM) policy forum @ Jurong GRC on Sunday (11 April). The discussion, entitled “HDB Flats: Towering Pinnacles, sky-high prices?”, was attended by about 50 people. The three speakers...

Alex Au on what HDB flats should mean

Mar. 14 | “The policy direction should be not to build costly flats with bells and whistles and then dishing out subsidies so people can buy them. Instead, it should be to build them at an affordable cost, so that no subsidies are necessary.” Alex Au,...

HDB: Homelessness due to policies? BTS better than BTO? 31,000 flats unsold, but nobody knows?

Mar. 12 | By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “Life’s a beach, but it’s no holiday: Parents’ irresponsibility, greed and policy are depriving kids of homes” (ST, Mar 9). The article begins by mentioning how a certain Mr Yusof lost his...

“I did not expect prices to go up” – Mah Bow Tan

Dec. 30 | Nobody, no matter how prescient, no matter how clever, would have been able to predict that this is what is going to happen this year. All of us were caught off-guard…I did not expect the prices to go up. But the point is, are we able to respond...