Affordable homes?

By lim peh wrote this

The Housing & Development Board (HDB) is Singapore’s public housing authority and a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development.

Providing Affordable, Quality Homes
As the public housing authority, HDB plans and develops public housing towns that provide Singaporeans with quality homes and living environments. In so doing, HDB also engages in active research and development work to ensure that cost-effectiveness and quality standards are maintained and continually improved on in the provision of HDB homes.

Ensuring Vibrant Towns
Even as HDB towns are provided with various commercial, recreational, and social facilities and amenities for the convenience of residents, one of HDB’s key priorities is to ensure that they meet needs and changing circumstances. Therefore, through renewal and upgrading programmes, HDB brings new features, facilities, and improvements to its older estates and towns to ensure their vibrancy and continued relevance.

Focusing on the Community
A key priority of HDB is the building of cohesive communities within its towns. Hence, living environments are provided with community spaces for residents to mingle and interact. Public housing policies and schemes are formulated not only to meet changing needs and aspirations, but also in support of national objectives such as racial harmony, stronger family ties, and focus as well on sectors of the population in need of specific attention such as the elderly and those who may be in financial difficulty. And with a network of branch offices islandwide, HDB ensures that it is well-integrated in the daily lives of the community it serves.

What happened to the affordable portion? Just heard over the news on tv…prices have risen again. And prices are gauged according to material costs in building flats. Nowadays flats seems not as durable as the past, ones built with the good old bricks. What do they use now in materials? Gold dust?

You need like at least SGD$300k to get a decent home, what? You say there’s cheaper ones? Yes, there is, in Mordor or far reaches in industrial estates or inconvienient hard to access neighbourhoods which you probably better have a car or die commuting “early to & late fro” to work daily.

Where they expecting us to stay next? Further and further away from work? city center? Ok, good, if i can afford a half-million dollar home, i probably would prefer to migrate elsewhere. Call me a quitter, but simply too many reasons to. One reason of being patriotic isn’t enough. Even a rock faced with a constant trickle of water, will have itself eroded away.