Tag: HDB

HDB Flat Buyers Still Living In Denial – HDB Still Owner Of Most Expensive Concrete Pigeon Holes
Ah Kow: I heard from kopi tiam talking about our HDB not really belong to us. How come like that?

Ahmad: Not possible leh. Must belong to me because every month my CPF OA become kosong to pay for my 3-room bird cage.

Arumugam: I don’t believe you guys also same as the 70% PAP supporters still believe in our home ownership crap. Let me tell you – this is a SCAM! But it’s the people who voted for this scam.

Ah Kow: Wa lau eh, say until so serious wait you get letter from PAP Aunty Sue then you know.

Arumugam: Aiyah, when I state facts, why should I be afraid? There is more evidence but before I show you this, let me show you some proof I saw on the internet a few months ago. (Turning on his laptop) he pointed to a legal document.

Ah Kow and Ahmad almost fell off their chairs in disbelief.

Ah Kow: But if everyone think we are the real owner, that means it must be true.

Arumugam: Long time ago before policemen wore shorts, people believed the world was flat. Not everyone like you so ignorant but I don’t blame you. PAP’s propaganda machine damn powerful, can turn black into white, night into day. Look at another document here – the ‘owner’ is just the lessee.

Ahmad: I think Arumugam is right, see this document here (below), also state the word lessees. Sia, I think we all kena con big time.

Arumugam: Singaporeans really living in denial but they cannot admit the truth because it would mean they have been blur like sotongs. Few adults will admit they have been fooled by their government.

Ah Kow: I also don’t want to believe this, sia.

Arumugam: When I rented out a room last year, guess what? I must inform the real landlord, HDB ,and submit all the particulars of my tenant. If you really own a property, such as a condo, there’s no need to inform anyone because you are not a fake landlord, like HDB ‘owners’.

Ah Kow: Hmm… ya hor, I feel dam sian but I understand better now. No wonder because HDB is the real landlord it can decide to suka suka change HDB rules. Knn I better sell my HDB tomorrow, don’t want to kena scam.

Ahmad: Bro, after selling, where you stay? Set up tent at the beach or sleep at void decks?

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Arumugam: Seriously, PAP has been screwing up citizens and profiting from us because that is the only way it can make money – in Singapore. At the stroke of a pen, “lessees” = “owners” just like CPF belongs to us but the rules are rewritten by PAP almost every year..

Ahmad: But isit big deal if lessee is not owner?

Arumugam: It is a very big deal because if all HDB ‘owners’ are correctly classified as ‘lessees’, then our home ownership rate will fall from 90.3 % to the lowest in the world.

Arumugam: Actually today I want to tell you guys that HDB already confirmed Singaporeans are not the owners on its website which it stated “Your can sublet your whole flat” or “You can sublet your spare bedroom(s)”.link

Ah Kow: Sublet and rent not the same meh?

Arumugam: HDB did not use “sublet” without knowing the definition. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “sublet” as:
- : to allow someone to use (an apartment, house, etc., that you are renting) for a period of time in return for payment
- : to use (an apartment, house, etc., that is rented by someone) in return for payment
Ahmad: That mean for 50 years everyone kena con by PAP?

Arumugam: People want to believe they are owners, especially when prices keep going up and they feel richer on paper. So they keep voting for PAP. People want to con themselves with the help of PAP. This own self con own self game has been played for too long and PAP will lose face big time if foreign media discover what has been going on. Now you look at the next page to confirm we are HDB’s tenants and our tenants are correctly classified as “subtenants” by HDB. If we are really “owners” as stated, HDB should not have stated our “tenants” as “subtenants”.

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Ah Kow: Sia, I think Aru is right. HDB say our tenants are “subtenants” mean we are “tenants” of HDB. Knn I want to go Hong Lim Green and hold protest rally like Roy.

Ahmad: Bro, be careful OK. Roy HLP protest rally kena shut down by civil servants who play politics. You don’t forget you only got ITE cert, who want to listen to you. Ha ha.

Arumugam: Singapore is so unique to have scored another first in the world: property ‘owners’ are not allowed to mortgage their property. But we can’t always blame PAP for scamming us because we have the most educated morons voting for this own-government-scam-own-citizens system. Just have to live with HDB being the real owner of the most expensive concrete pigeon hole in the sky. (sigh)

Source: https://likedatosocanmeh.wordpress.com
January 11, 2016
Couple’s Appeal Against Flat Repossession Rejected

The top court dismissed a couple’s appeal for a judicial review of the Housing Board’s (HDB) decision to repossess their flat for illegal sub-letting.

The appeal court, comprising Judges of Appeal (JA) Chao Hick Tin, Andrew Phang and Justice Judith Prakash, found HDB was “amply justified” in compulsorily acquiring the flat and there was no evidence that the minister acted unreasonably in the move.

The case is the first to be heard by the courts involving judicial review of the compulsory acquisition of a flat. Mr Per Ah Seng, 48, and his wife, Madam Tee Bee Kiaw, sought to quash HDB’s move to compulsorily acquire their four-room flat in Bukit Batok Central for unauthorised sub-letting.

HDB, acting on a tip-off in 2009, conducted investigations which showed the entire unit was rented out without approval. Mr Per denied renting out the flat, but admitted his family stayed overnight in his mother’s Hougang flat at times.

HDB said its decision was not unreasonable and there was no breach of natural justice to justify a judicial review. Mr Per had been accorded due appeal process to HDB and the minister before the flat was compulsorily acquired by HDB, said HDB’s lawyer Dinesh Singh Dhillon.

The High Court had dismissed Mr Per’s application last year, ruling the papers were filed out of time but making clear the suit failed on the merits of the case even if the review was allowed to proceed.

“In Singapore, there is perhaps no social contract more far-reaching than that relating to flats provided by the HDB, in which the vast majority of Singapore’s population lives,” wrote JA Chao on the court’s behalf.

The court noted that very often, subsidies are provided by the Government to make the flats more affordable but flat owners had to reciprocate by adhering to conditions in relation to the units owned.

A key preliminary issue in the case was whether the relevant section of the HDB Act prevented the court from examining the minister’s decision. Many legal academics and commentators have argued against the court recognising such “ouster clauses” especially when involving tangible issues subject to review, noted JA Chao.

“Our courts have viewed such clauses with circumspection and have declined to give effect to them on several occasions,” he added.

The court noted that lawyers from Allen & Gledhill as well as the Attorney-General’s Chambers defending HDB and the minister respectively had declined to rely on the ouster clause in opposing the couple’s bid for a judicial review.

Noting this, the court refrained “from coming to a firm conclusion on whether this ouster clause bars us from reviewing the minister’s decision”, wrote JA Chao in judgement grounds released yesterday.

The court, instead, opted to assume the relevant law does not appear to prevent the court from reviewing the minister’s decision, noting the issues in the case were “eminently” qualified for court review.

Mr Per had appealed to the apex court where his lawyer Kirpal Singh argued HDB did not disclose sufficient details about the investigation before seizure to enable him to respond adequately.

The court disagreed, finding there were cogent public interests that justified non-disclosure, as people may “game” the system if investigative methods were revealed.

The court allowed Mr Per’s appeal that the application was not filed out of time, but dismissed his case as being without merit.

Among other things, the court did not find Mr Per to be a “truthful person”. The court, however, reduced the legal costs payable by Mr Per by a third.

Source: www.straitstimes.com

December 3, 2015
Cracks Appearing In New BTO Flat, HDB Officer Unwilling To Do Site Visit

Dear Editors,

I refer to the recent article published in Straits Time regarding crack lines appearing in Punggol BTOs.
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/housing/cracks-appearing-in-new-bt…

We are staying in our new BTOs along Yishun Avenue 1 Blk 431D and several of us here have noticed crack lines appearing in every room in our flats, after renovation commenced above us.

We are worried about safety and have reported this issue to HDB. However, as the DLP just hit 1 year, they mentioned that they could not do anything much. While we understand that it may not be a structural defect because the HDB officer mentioned that the crack lines need to be more than 3mm or something, we believed that their professional officer should at least come and check instead of brushing us off by calls.

We hope that the authority will do something. Thank you.

Adeline
A.S.S. Contributor

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

October 14, 2015
Family Escapes Fire Seconds Before Blast At Bukit Batok Flat

He was hungry after his night shift and wanted to eat some fries.

After leaving a pan of oil to heat on the stove the man, who wanted to be known only as Mr Ali, stepped out of the kitchen and went to the living room to rest.

The civil servant in his mid 20s dozed off and the next thing he knew, his stove was on fire.

After his attempts to put out the growing fire failed, Mr Ali and his family fled the Bukit Batok HDB flat.

Seconds later, they heard what sounded like a gas cylinder exploding.

The fire happened just before 11.20am yesterday at Block 350, Bukit Batok Street 32.

Twenty-seven other residents living on the first to fourth floors of the block were also evacuated.

A man in his 20s was found with minor burn injuries but declined to be taken to hospital, said a spokesman for the Singapore Civil Defence Force.

Source: www.tnp.sg

October 6, 2015
Poor Malay Family Living In Staircase Of HDB Estate

I have been living in my neighborhood for years. Never seen this Malay family before. It was until recently that I notice them.

The story was like this…

I was in my living room watching TV around 8pm that I start hearing babies crying sound outside. Initially, I thought its was nothing until the sound keep continuing for 2 hours. Feeling annoy I went out to keep a look out what happen. To my surprise, after I open the door, I saw a family of 5 living on the staircase, even with a mattress lying on the floor. (The type of HDB with door leading to the staircase) They totally treat the staircase as their house… I was speechless and ask them how come they are doing this, I even threaten to call the police as they causing a nuisances to others.

They beg me not to and explain they got chase out of their house, with no place to go to. They will just stay put here for a night and will move to relative house the very next day.

Fast forward to next day, I went to check the staircase and found out that they are gone but they left behind a mess. With rubbish everywhere and a nasty smell of don’t what…

And, this seems not like a isolated case… Just nice happen to check with my neighbour, he said that this couple have been doing this shifting and moving for a couple of months in my neighbourhood le. Everytime when someone complain, they will shift to other block or some other level.

What can I do to help this family?

obsceneK2
A.S.S. Reader

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

September 29, 2015