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So much for quality housing! Why are we paying first world prices for something like this?

This way, Singaporeans can do our party and teach our children not to litter. Imagine how much of our city will be cleaned!

The HDB concessionary loan is supposed to help make housing affordable.

Our reader who complained about her neighbour's "night time renovation" to the HDB, Police and other relevant authorities said nobody bothered to help her. She was enraged by how HDB actually had the cheek to ask her to be more tolerant instead of doing something to solve the problem!

Another opinion from yet another person on Presidential hopeful who wish to continue living in common public housing: "He or she is depriving one family of a HDB place when she/he can afford private housing. This person is selfish and inconsiderate as HDB is meant for citizens struggling to find accommodation." What do you think?

Yet, housing policies continue to disadvantage single parents, expressing the assumption that as a society, we are fine with these families being penalised. Whether this is consciously intended or not, relegating their housing problems to the realm of philanthropy amounts to further acceptance of this assumption”. Do single mothers in Malaysia face the discriminatory policies that we have here in Singapore? So, another obviously glaring question after reading the above cited two articles on the same day is – why is it that public housing in Singapore cost many times more than Malaysia?

In 2016, Singapore homes prices were 4.8 times the median annual pretax household income, a slight improvement from the 5.1 times recorded in 2013, but still among the world's most "seriously unaffordable" household prices according to the 13th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey.

Generally is there any better scheme for single who marry a non-citizen spouse under the HDB NCS scheme. It seem the NCS doesn't work well for single, especially when most of them marry their foreign spouse in their mid-thirties and can only apply 2room BTO and have to wait for at least 3 years before the BTO flat is ready for collection.

It states that “Many Singaporeans rode the property boom in the years from 2008 to 2013 to build a substantial level of wealth for themselves. But the last three years have been unkind to Singapore’s property market.”

Madam Speaker, this bill recognizes that equality matters for the promotion of family life. While it is important to continue to promote parenthood within the ambit of marital unions, there is a need to balance it with the recognition that not everyone is so fortunate to be able to sustain a happy marriage, or even obtain it. Economic pressures, relationship problems or errors of judgement may be to blame for marital breakdown or unwed pregnancies. But the most important thing is that children should not be published for the prejudices and mistakes of adults.