No to raising HDB income ceiling to S$10,000

From: allo

Subject: Re: No to raising HDB income ceiling to S$10,000..

By pandering to middle class Singaporean, this is how LHL has screwed up
Singapore.

IMO, poorer to lower middle class Singaporean are easier to satisfy if
things do not go their way or got what they want. These Singaporean
would simply move on. For example, if poor Singaporeans can't get a HDB
rental flat, they don't complain and just put a tent in East Coast Park.

On the other hand, when middle to upper class Singaporean don't get what
they want, for example, that choice HDB flat or that new car park or
that preferred school or wanted NS vocation, they will start writing
countless letters to LTA, HDB, SLA, PMO, MINDEF, URA, town councils,
etc, etc, or later attend those MPS or MTS session lodging their
"concerns" to their MPs while depriving other lower to middle class
Singaporean of voicing their concerns.

For example, more than 60% of Singaporean do not drive and yet our PM
LHL keep building new roads for the rest of 40% road drivers knowing
that there are already 1.2 million vehicles on the road consuming almost
12% of all available land space. Likewise SLA and URA have to pander to
these group and keep allotting reserve land to them because they want
that condos or this executive flat.

The most troubling thing when many Singaporean wanted public
transportations to be made free of charge, the whole PAP simply dismiss
the idea.

No wonder many Singaporean felt PM LHL is not fit to lead Singaporean
because if the PAP government under him keep pandering to richer middle
class Singaporean of their needs and wants, there will be no end to
their demand.

On 31/5/2011 11:06 PM, truth wrote:

> They have to do that

> 1. to help the middle middle class.
> 2. to increase the demand to absorb the higher supply.

> "allo" wrote in message
> news:is2e3v$6ia$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> To be honest I don't see the logic of raising HDB flat income ceiling from
>> S$8,000 to S$10,000.

>> The simple reason is adding more demand for HDB flat when the situation of
>> insufficient rental and new flats has not been resolved would not make the
>> HDB housing stock appear faster. Hence, how would adding another 90,000
>> families with household income of S$120,000 per year to the existing BTO
>> queue solve the severe housing shortage problem ?

>> Why families with S$10,000 monthly income ceiling is looking towards HDB
>> flats is because private housing has become unaffordable. And the reason
>> why they are unaffordable is quite obvious due to large number of PRs as
>> well as foreigners.

>> I guess no wonder no one is reading MBT 22 pages of article justifying his
>> HDB policies because it is so different from reality.