I AM writing to commend the residents of Tampines Street 22 for extending a welcoming hand to new rental block residents who will soon become their neighbours. Their gesture demonstrates the unity that is needed to maintain the harmony we currently enjoy ('New rental block? Neighbours say welcome'; last Thursday). On the other hand, the discriminatory stance taken by certain residents of Tampines Street...
HDB Rental Flats
A NEW rental HDB block is coming up in Tampines Street 22 - and unlike their neighbours in Pasir Ris and Tampines Street 83, residents there are happy to have it near them. All 20 residents interviewed by The Straits Times yesterday expressed no objections. Some were even welcoming of their future rental block neighbours who are expected to move in around May. Their only gripe: the loss of the football...
MP Sin Boon Ann has assured some Tampines residents, who were unhappy that HDB rental flats will be built right in front of their block, that the quality of their estate will not be hurt nor the peace be disturbed. The MP for Tampines GRC will work with the HDB and residents to debunk the perception that rental flats are old, dirty and bad for image of the estate. A block of rental flats will soon be...
Rental flats today are no longer just a shelter for the destitute. With the worsening economy, some middle-class families, faced with financial hardship, have been forced to downgrade. How are the newly poor, who are now moving into one-room flats, coping with their new environment, envy and hostility? THIS is the last place Mr Ramah Arif (not his real name), 33, expected to end up. A cheap, far from...
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) is tightening its rental flat eligibility criteria with immediate effect to ensure that these heavily subsidised flats go to the truly needy. HDB rental flats come cheap. With rent rebates and discounts, 85 per cent of tenants pay very low rent, according to the National Development Ministry. Taking into account the increased rebates under the Goods and Services...
Young adults are placing their parents on the waiting list because they don't want to live with them TWO current issues should raise some concern among Singaporeans. First, the tripling in the number of applications for HDB rental flats, as highlighted by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the National Day Rally, and second, news that more families are facing difficulty paying their electricity bills....
Singapore's Housing & Development Board (HDB) said it is offering 8,400 new flats this year, which is 40 per cent higher than the 6,000 units offered in 2007. Of these, 5,000 flats have already been launched, with a good part of them sited in Punggol, which is earmarked as a waterfront town. Plans are also in the pipeline to address the issue of rising construction costs and high demand for public...
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) will complete its review of the Public Rental Scheme as early as year end, says National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan. The HDB will tighten eligibility criteria for rental flats and help moderate demand. But from now, applicants with more urgent needs will be able to bypass the long queue to get their flats. The HDB is also increasing the number of rental flats...