Category Archives: COS 2022: Pritam Singh

Mr Pritam Singh: Thank you, Chair. I thank the Minister for responding to some of my cuts. Just a few clarifications. First on the priority schemes. I note that the current information provided by HDB does not detail whether the respective priority schemes have been fully allocated for a typical BTO exercise. And to thatContinue reading “COS 2022: Priority Schemes & Ethnic Integration Policy”

Mr Pritam Singh: In September last year, I asked the Minister for National Development a written Parliamentary Question for data for each of the respective five-yearly intervals from December 1990 to December 2020 to detail, amongst other things, the names of the EIP or Ethnic Integration Policy affected neighbourhoods where at least one EIP limit wasContinue reading “COS 2022: Ethnic Integration Policy Data”

Mr Pritam Singh: A single Singaporean has to be above 35 years of age to purchase a resale public housing flat or to apply for a Build-to-Order 2-room Flexi Flat. The Workers’ Party’s position is that the eligibility age for singles to buy a flat should be lowered to the age of 28. According to theContinue reading “COS 2022: Singles’ Eligibility Age for HDB Flats”

Mr Pritam Singh: The HDB’s web page lists seven separate priority schemes to book a flat under the Build-To-Order (BTO) or Sales of Balance Flat exercises. My purpose in speaking on them today is to ask whether the HDB has explored whether the thresholds of these priority schemes remain fit for purpose, in light ofContinue reading “COS 2022: HDB Priority Schemes”

Mr Pritam Singh (Aljunied): The use of the word “lottery” to refer to the allocation of HDB flats in the online domain dates back to as far as 2003. The term “lottery effect” started coming into widespread use in 2015, after flats at The Pinnacle@Duxton reached their Minimum Occupation Period (MOP). This lottery effect was explicitlyContinue reading “COS 2022: Prime Location Public Housing Scheme”