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Posts tagged with "mah bow tan"
Nowhere else to turn
Feb. 6 | Joshua Chiang The first thing you would notice about Rahim (not his real name) is the slight bulge on the left side of his T-shirt. As he lifts his shirt to reveal an ostomy bag attached to the side of his abdomen, Rahim tells us the pouch collects...
SERS flats converted to condo for expats
Feb. 5 | Andrew Loh / Joshua Chiang Blocks 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 along Tiong Bahru Road were built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) which operated between 1927 and 1959. The SIT was a body set up by the British colonial authority to solve the housing problems...
SERS flats to be rented out to foreigners again – this time in Bedok
Feb. 4 | Andrew Loh / Leong Sze Hian / Special thanks to Lynn Lee “If everybody jumps onto this safety net, whether they deserve to or they don’t, that safety net is going to break. … They could easily afford a studio apartment or a small resale flat....
HDB’s inflexible policies will result in more homeless S’poreans
Feb. 3 | Andrew Loh / Leong Sze Hian / Picture from Wikimedia ‘There’s no question that our policies are designed for the good of the people. While there may be certain parts of the policies that are not favourable, overall, I think these policies...
50 years of HDB – homelessness is its biggest challenge
Jan. 23 | Andrew Loh Come next Tuesday to Friday, the Housing and Development Board will host the International Housing Conference, an event to showcase and boast about the HDB’s achievements over the last 50 years. Titled, “Sustainable Housing : Charting New...
It is affordable – Mah Bow Tan
Jan. 15 | This is possible due to our generous subsidy system. All new flats come with a generous market subsidy. Mah Bow Tan, insisting that HDB flats are affordable.
High HDB prices driven by speculators, hurting genuine home seekers
Jan. 4 | The following is a letter to the Today newspaper by Mr See Leong Kit which was “rejected for publication.” Your report “Asset that keeps growing” (TODAY Dec 30) highlighted Minister Mah Bow Tan’s simplistic and optimistic view...
Year In Review: HDB flats – subsidy, affordability, prices.
Dec. 30 | Statistics can be interesting and fun. TOC’s Fang Shihan sat down with Mr Leong Sze Hian to talk about the main bread-and-butter issues of 2009. In this Part One of the interview, Mr Leong looks at one of the biggest issues this year – the prices...
“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...
Higher HDB prices good for Singaporeans?
Dec. 21 | Leong Sze Hian Our columnist picks apart the latest announcements and replies from HDB. I refer to the HDB’s latest announcement on Build-to-order (BTO) flats for December – in Queenstown (Dawson), Bukit Panjang and Sembawang. Once again, the...
“PRs need to have a home in Singapore” – Mah Bow Tan
Nov. 24 | 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...
Mah’s explanation does not square with HDB’s annual report
Nov. 20 | Leong Sze Hian Number of flats sold declined, contradicting Mah’s explanation on reasons for HDB’s S$2 billion deficit. On 7 November, the Minister for National Development, Mr Mah Bow Tan, explained why the Housing and Development Board has incurred...
Mah Bow Tan dismisses flat buyers’ complaints
Oct. 8 | Don’t worry, there are flats available for you, in different parts of Singapore at prices that are affordable. Mah Bow Tan
HDB flats – “affordability will always be there”, says Mah
Sep. 3 | The flat prices would probably go up … by 1 per cent, 2 per cent… It will just keep on going up if the economy recovers as people expect, and if confidence returns but affordability will always be there. National Development Minister, Mah Bow...
Some speculation but no bubble, says Mah
Jul. 30 | I wouldn’t say there’s excessive speculation at the moment, but there is some element of speculation involved. I think some of the practices that you saw in the last property boom are starting to come back. So I think we’ll have to...
Is it wise to save $36,000 this way?
Feb. 16 | TOC reporter investigates the new steel shafts with which the HDB is constructing new lifts and shows you what you are paying for in the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP). Boris Chan HDB’s cost-saving measures for new lifts is a matter of concern –...
