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Posts tagged with "hdb"
Important for HDB to reveal building costs
Dec. 16 | The following is a letter to the ST Forum by See Leong Kit which was rejected for publication: I refer to your report, “Market-based pricing fairest for new HDB flats: Mah” (ST Nov 19). The HDB has yet to rebut forum writer Tan Kim Chuan’s...
HDB – providing homes or a monopolistic business model
Dec. 3 | Ash Tong / Guest Writer I have always taken great discomfort, when MSM and biased marketing talk always refer to the pricing of new flats as “Discount to the market” or “Cheaper than comparative condominiums in the area’. The Ang Mo Kio and Bishan...
Fed up with statistics (Part One)
Nov. 24 | Coming Soon to TOC: Town Councils and their investments. What residents and TOC readers can do. Stay tuned to TOC in the next day or two. We’ll require your participation to get the town councils to account for their investments. Also, PN Balji’s...
TOC Report: Singaporean, 57, employed, married but cannot buy HDB flat
Nov. 12 | Andrew Loh / Deputy Editor Mr Sinnathamby Silvalinkam, 57, is a very disheartened and desperate man. Five months of correspondences with the Housing and Development Board (HDB) have failed to help him get what he desperately needs – a roof over his...
Means testing for public housing?
Oct. 9 | Update: In view of the comments posted here by readers, please allow me to clarify a few issues which readers have brought up. Please see below. Andrew Loh / Deputy Editor A couple with 4 children and an elderly mother appeals to the HDB for a concessionary...
Promote entrepreneurship – but what kind of stupid rule is this?
Jul. 28 | Leong Sze Hian If your wages have not been catching up with the transport fare increases, what do you do? Become an entrepreneur, as the Government has been encouraging people to be. In the report, “PM Lee says public sector should embrace entrepreneurial...
