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http://business.asiaone.com/Business/News/Story/A1Story20110530-281324.html
Khaw: more rental flats to be built
By Gwendolyn Ng
MINISTER for National Development Khaw Boon Wan hopes to build more rental flats to cater to those who need them - such as divorcees - but come up against insufficient supply.
Speaking at a youth forum held at Woodlands Community Club yesterday, he said: "It's quite clear...that we need to ramp up the building of rental flats as quickly as we can, (and) not just by a few thousand. We need to build by the tens of thousands, and the earlier the better."
The forum, organised by the Sembawang Group Representation Constituency Youth Executive Committee, was attended by about 350 young people aged between 15 and 35.
Recounting his experiences at Meet-the-People Sessions, Mr Khaw said he has met divorcees with children who ask to get a rental flat quickly, after they are left suddenly without a roof over their heads.
In divorce proceedings, the court may order that a couple's matrimonial assets, such as a Housing Board flat, be split. Mr Khaw added: "There are all kinds of HDB rules that prevent them from renting and the rules are not frivolous."
The HDB website lists eligibility criteria for the Public Rental Scheme, which includes an income ceiling. There are about 45,000 HDB rental flats.
The minister wrote on his blog, Housing Matters, last Friday that HDB will raise the number of Build-To-Order units from 22,000 to 25,000 this year.
With the rise in demand to construct new flats, as well as the need to build similar numbers of rental flats, he said that the industry will find it hard to cope and it will take time. He said: "That's why we are having so much difficulty meeting the real needs and demands of people who want rental flats. My message is...please be patient."
Another hot topic discussed was the call to reduce the number of foreign talents here.
When Mr Khaw asked whether the audience was worried about foreign workers taking away jobs from Singaporeans, the audience replied with a resounding "yes".
He said: "Singapore will always need foreign workers. The question is how many. And (in) the last couple of years, (there have been) too many."
But he cautioned that there would be a trade-off, with the move to "calibrate down" the number of foreign workers, in the form of slower economic growth.
Among those who posed questions was a young man who had completed national service recently. He asked how young people could be equipped to face competition against foreign talent, both locally and globally.
Mr Khaw replied: "The new economy is such that there is no more local competition and foreign competition. It is one competition now. And it is global.
"All of you are better trained than I was, at your age. We have made leaps and bounds. I don't think we need to feel diffident. We can win, we can compete."
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http://business.asiaone.com/Business/News/Story/A1Story20110530-281324.html
Khaw: more rental flats to be built
By Gwendolyn Ng
MINISTER for National Development Khaw Boon Wan hopes to build more rental flats to cater to those who need them - such as divorcees - but come up against insufficient supply.
Speaking at a youth forum held at Woodlands Community Club yesterday, he said: "It's quite clear...that we need to ramp up the building of rental flats as quickly as we can, (and) not just by a few thousand. We need to build by the tens of thousands, and the earlier the better."
The forum, organised by the Sembawang Group Representation Constituency Youth Executive Committee, was attended by about 350 young people aged between 15 and 35.
Recounting his experiences at Meet-the-People Sessions, Mr Khaw said he has met divorcees with children who ask to get a rental flat quickly, after they are left suddenly without a roof over their heads.
In divorce proceedings, the court may order that a couple's matrimonial assets, such as a Housing Board flat, be split. Mr Khaw added: "There are all kinds of HDB rules that prevent them from renting and the rules are not frivolous."
The HDB website lists eligibility criteria for the Public Rental Scheme, which includes an income ceiling. There are about 45,000 HDB rental flats.
The minister wrote on his blog, Housing Matters, last Friday that HDB will raise the number of Build-To-Order units from 22,000 to 25,000 this year.
With the rise in demand to construct new flats, as well as the need to build similar numbers of rental flats, he said that the industry will find it hard to cope and it will take time. He said: "That's why we are having so much difficulty meeting the real needs and demands of people who want rental flats. My message is...please be patient."
Another hot topic discussed was the call to reduce the number of foreign talents here.
When Mr Khaw asked whether the audience was worried about foreign workers taking away jobs from Singaporeans, the audience replied with a resounding "yes".
He said: "Singapore will always need foreign workers. The question is how many. And (in) the last couple of years, (there have been) too many."
But he cautioned that there would be a trade-off, with the move to "calibrate down" the number of foreign workers, in the form of slower economic growth.
Among those who posed questions was a young man who had completed national service recently. He asked how young people could be equipped to face competition against foreign talent, both locally and globally.
Mr Khaw replied: "The new economy is such that there is no more local competition and foreign competition. It is one competition now. And it is global.
"All of you are better trained than I was, at your age. We have made leaps and bounds. I don't think we need to feel diffident. We can win, we can compete."
[email protected]
