HOUSING - The endless and futile debate

[Confuseous]

My position in protecting Singaporeans is fairly straight forward. Keep public housing to Singaporeans and build as many as long as there are Singaporeans who need the flats. No need to have all the cumbersome and ridiculous rules and regulations. The private property sector can be less regulated, to let those who have the money to speculate to their hearts content.

But the primary aim of building for every Singaporean without all the silly restrictions must be observed and practiced. Also be careful about being Singaporeans as tomorrow all the foreigners can become Singaporeans. In fact all the screwed up statistics on citizens and foreigners buying properties are deceiving in this aspect. Quite a number are new citizens, which means foreigners yesterday.

- http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/2011/11/endless-and-futile-debate.html

 

[Agoraphobic]

Er, Public Housing in Sg is Private. It belongs to the gahmen.

Cheers!

 

[aangsc]

My position in protecting Singaporeans is fairly straight forward. Keep public housing to Singaporeans and build as many as long as there are Singaporeans who need the flats. No need to have all the cumbersome and ridiculous rules and regulations. The private property sector can be less regulated, to let those who have the money to speculate to their hearts content.

But the primary aim of building for every Singaporean without all the silly restrictions must be observed and practiced. Also be careful about being Singaporeans as tomorrow all the foreigners can become Singaporeans. In fact all the screwed up statistics on citizens and foreigners buying properties are deceiving in this aspect. Quite a number are new citizens, which means foreigners yesterday.

- http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/2011/11/endless-and-futile-debate.html

If I am a FT thinking of going to a country that I may have problem qualifying, Singaporean citizenship is the answer. We give it out like toilet paper now.
What we think is a sucessful way to 'top-up' our population due to low birth rate may well be a transit period to many new citizen.
I agree with you that HDB should be for singaporean and only those who have at least reside here as PR or citizen for 3-5 years. They should not be allow to sell in the first 5 years.
Unregulated speculation will only bring us trouble as we are highly lmited by land.
They have to build more flat at faster pace and make sure also build basic flat and not all those DBSS.

 

[zhihau]

My position in protecting Singaporeans is fairly straight forward.

we just need to look at how HDB first started: by having affordable housing for the citizens.

the current pricing is simply beyond affordable, almost bordering ridiculous, ridiculously high.

 

[Cruxx]

Er, Public Housing in Sg is Private. It belongs to the gahmen.

Cheers!

Are you insinuating that the SG gahmen is not a public entity? Feudalism is alive and well in Sinkieland. Uniquely Singapore

 

[Fook Seng]

we just need to look at how HDB first started: by having affordable housing for the citizens.

the current pricing is simply beyond affordable, almost bordering ridiculous, ridiculously high.

HDB housing does not qualify under the definition of public housing which is understood to be heavily subsidized and affordable to the poor.