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National Day Rally 2023: HDB homes and precincts to be made more



HDB homes and precincts in Singapore will be made more senior-friendly, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the National Day Rally 2023 on Sunday (Aug 20).

Some ways of doing so include revamping streets and linkways frequented by seniors, as well as building more assisted living facilities,…

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  1. Government must provide telephone hotlines for assisting seniors in community living. For those, who are near the end of their life,the government must provide subsidies or low cost funeral services ,cremation or burial especially for the needy and single.

  2. Totally lost faith with this government
    Total corruption
    CECA and FTs
    Errant smokers
    Errant PHV and PMD are always allowed on the road
    Talk only never act
    Incompetency
    Stop using your father name

  3. HDB/BTO priced more expensive than Private Free Hold Landed Properties prorated to 99 years and BTW, HDB Revert to Zero Value at the end of the 99 years lease -> $0.00.

    Mathematically speaking, buying the land at say 50 cents psf and Selling it at $500 psf to build HDBs for a transitional 99 years leash is multi-folds of financial gains since they can build multiples of 99 years, multi floors and multi units.

  4. No need any help from government just return our local breed Singaporean whole-life hard-earned stressed n sweat c p f money. We have proud in our own savings n don't give excuses that help us safe guard our money so that we wont be cheated or swindle by foreign women.probably our c p f money are used for investments that losed n are unable to coop back thats why have to hold back another dark long ten years after the first return at 55.

  5. Is HDB selling buyers its HDB flats at prices that are way above the cost involved in building them, or is HDB making buyers pay for the additional cost of building facilities and land that they do not own and then reducing the final price by “subsidising” the buyer with grants?

    As seen in the case involving the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) at Ang Mo Kio Ave 3, the Government appears to be buying back the flats at their individual level without paying for the land surrounding the estate.
    Of course, it might be the case where the flats at AMK Ave 3 did not factor in land costs into their pricing under the 1G PAP government but the issue about the government not needing to pay for development outside of the flat owners’ units is more than enough reason not to charge them using the development cost as a basis.
    Going back to Mdm Ho’s example of how HDB flat “owners” are better off than private property owners.

  6. Are they really getting value for money paid for their 99-year leasehold, as Mdm Ho puts it?
    Thankfully, as a result of the Non-constituency Member of Parliament, Mr Leong Mun Wai’s constant badgering for details from the Government, we now have specific data for a recent HDB project in Ang Mo Kio for the purpose of consideration.

    Is HDB selling buyers its HDB flats at prices that are way above the cost involved in building them, or is HDB making buyers pay for the additional cost of building facilities and land that they do not own and then reducing the final price by “subsidising” the buyer with grants?

  7. The Ridout saga demonstrates yet again why we need to change the Government so that the light of day can be shone into all those corners where LHL, his Ministers and friends and cronies have so successfully evaded scrutiny.

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