Tan Kin Lian's Blog: Wisdom of the Crowd

Monday, June 20, 2022

Wisdom of the Crowd - New Issues

1. Should HDB offer a replacement flat for an owner affected by SERS?
2. What is a fair compensation to an owner of a repossessed HDB flat
3. Should the owner of a repossessed HDB flat pay a levy on the current flat

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...: Why Some Men have Dogs and Not Wives

1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you.

2. Dogs don't notice if you call them by another dog's name.

3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor.

4. A dog's parents never visit.

5. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.

6. You never have to wait for a dog; they're ready to go 24 hours a day.

7. Dogs find you amusing when you're drunk.

8. Dogs like to go hunting and fishing.

9. A dog will not wake you up at night to ask, "If I died, would you get another dog?"

10. If a dog has babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away.

11. A dog will let you put a studded collar on it without calling you a pervert.

12. If a dog smells another dog on you, they don't get mad. They just think it's interesting.

13. Dogs like to ride in the back of a pickup truck.

And last, but not least:

14. If a dog leaves, it won't take half of your stuff.

To test this theory:

Lock your wife and your dog in the garage for a couple of hours.

Then open it and see who's happy to see you.; June 20, 2022 1:45 PM
Anonymous said...: While the government can be notoriously famous for handing down the shorter end of the stick, to its people, it can be said that people's expectations can also sound like wanting all?

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.” This saying is very true.; June 20, 2022 3:40 PM
Anonymous said...: Married son (with his family) is working oversea.

He has a 4-room HDB (BTO) flat rented out.

It has reached the 5 years limit ie cannot rent out anymore.

The flat hasn't gotten MOP since it was rented out therefore cannot be sold.

Son & family has no plan to come back yet.

Can he let parents to stay in his flat?; June 20, 2022 8:07 PM
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Anonymous said...: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/real-estate/the-man-who-helped-create-singapores-housing-boom-is-getting-worried

Lui Thai Ker (101% correct) This is what we call real talent with a heart.

The city is one of Asia’s most expensive property markets — and at the same time, boasts one of the highest homeownership rates in the world.

But in the past few years — and especially since the pandemic, which plunged the city into its worst recession — Singapore’s housing model has come under heightened scrutiny. Surging prices and thinning profits are raising concerns about growing inequality among the city’s citizens, and threatening to unravel its lauded housing model.
The only resource we have in Singapore is human beings, and we have to look after our human beings to survive as a country. So, first, you have to satisfy the basic human needs: to clothe them, feed them, to give them housing, to have good transportation.

This is very important. Because if you don’t have a home, first of all, you cannot concentrate on your work. And second, our public housing (agency] is probably one of very, very few in the world that built housing not just to rent, but to sell. When you own your own property, you will feel that you have taken root in society. And you will also want to defend the country and help build the economy. So, homeownership is another very important factor in the success story of public housing.

One of my jobs at the HDB was to monitor the supply of public housing against demand, to make sure that people don’t have to wait too long to get public housing. In fact, what we wanted was to have supply slightly higher than demand, so that people will not have to pay high prices.

I do worry that nowadays that public housing has become a kind of business venture, rather than actually solving housing needs. I feel that the implication may not be very good for the economic development of Singapore.

Personally, I feel that our original policy — one, to monitor supply and demand, and two, to build relatively low-cost housing — is still valid. And on top of that, of course, to build highly self-sufficient new towns. All these things have respectively contributed to our economic growth.

I would say, keep the housing price rising steadily and not in a crazy way. But how to make that transition — I think we need some economists’ advice. Because now it has gone crazy. If you suddenly control it, I don’t know what negative effect there could be. We need an economist to study it. But my wish is that we would go back to something more steady, so that our property prices remain more predictable.

We should be thankful that the first-generation political leaders championed meritocracy.

Our first-generation political leaders feared for our survival. And now we appear to be very successful — and we are — but I personally feel that as a tiny country without resources, we must insist on maintaining the crisis mentality in order to survive. The crisis is still lurking behind our successful appearance. BLOOMBERG; June 28, 2022 7:58 AM