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Singaporeans’ rights to social security and public housing
May. 14 | Social security Singaporean workers have to make mandatory contributions of up to 34.5 per cent of their wages to their own individual pension accounts (the Central Provident Fund accounts). The government issues non-marketable government bonds at 2.5...
Public housing flats – Singaporeans come first or foreigners?
Feb. 7 | Andrew Loh If you have always thought the homeless are lazy people or are unemployed on purpose, perhaps you have bought into the stereotype of these people too conveniently. Yet it is not uncommon to find such views of the homeless among Singaporeans. However,...
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.
HDB housing policies – tilting the advantage towards PRs?
Jan. 11 | The following is Part One of a special three-part focus on the Housing and Development Board’s public housing policies. Parts Two and Three will be published on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Leong Sze Hian I attended the HDB’s Resale Seminar...
TOC Editorial: A question of supply
Jan. 7 | HDB should invest more in low-income housing The news last month that two HDB blocks in Toa Payoh – previously slated for redevelopment – have been converted to dormitories for foreign workers employed by Singapore’s new integrated resorts have...
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...
S’poreans more able to afford larger flats?
Dec. 7 | Leong Sze Hian I REFER to the report, ‘Cool response to smaller HDB flats’ (Nov 27), which stated that there were much fewer applications for HDB two- and three-room flats, relative to larger flats. The reasoning that this was due to more...
“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...
HDB resale prices hit record highs
Oct. 24 | [The 'cash-over-valuation' (COV)] – or the cash top-up payable by buyers – quadrupled from a median of $3,000 in the previous quarter to $12,000. Straits Times, “HDB resale prices at record high”
Prices of HDB flats – press censorship?
Oct. 2 | Mr See Leong Kit had sent a letter to the Today newspaper on the pricing of HDB flats (16 Sept). The HDB responded to his letter on 25th Sept. (See links to both letters below). The Today newspaper, however, has declined to publish the follow-up letter...
Disillusioned with trying to purchase a HDB flat
Sep. 19 | The following is a comment by one of our readers in response to an earlier post on TOC, “HDB flats – “affordability will always be there”, says Mah.” We publish it here without edits. Disillusion A few years ago, just 4 month shy of my 35th...
Cost of building HDB flats – finally an answer?
Sep. 2 | Leong Sze Hian I refer to the replies by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) to the various letters in the Straits Times forum page over the past few weeks. (See below) I also refer to media reports (“SGX mainboard-listed BBR secures S$104.2m HDB...
HDB prices hit record high
Jul. 24 | Excerpts from the Straits Times: PRICES of Housing Board flats have reached a historical record, rising 1.4 per cent in the second quarter this year, reversing a first-quarter dip of 0.8 per cent. Fresh data released from the HDB on Friday shows the resale...
