Punggol East By-Election coming ? MP steps down
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Harlequin:
Anywhere else in the world is just about the same when people buy their first home, that is if they are lucky enough that their gov are capable enough to provide them with cheap public housing as heavenly as Singapore.[/quote]In some countries, couples usually do not have enough money to buy a place to call their home. Most will have to rent first before saving enough for their first home.janet_lee88:
[quote=\"ngl2010\"]And the 7m people will increase the demand for property so supply will still play catching up. So, property prices will still go north? I hope I am wrong.
New couples having to wait 3 years minimum for their first flat...their BTO flat is just an empty shell. Young couples have to save for wedding and renovate their flat and buy furniture. Even if they go for the minimum decor, renovation and furniture adds up.
New flats are in non-mature estates. If these young couples stay there and then start a family, they will be busy fetching/sending bb to and fro parents' place which is usually not near. Reason is bcos newly wedded couples can hardly afford to pay premium prices for resale units near their parents.
I just wonder if my kids can afford to buy a flat in future...or they also face the scenario of having to buy flats in the outskirts. Property prices will not come down. -
Harlequin:
Not ALL HDB flats are priced cheap! My new HDB flat at the outskirt bought in the 90s direct from HDB is far from cheap. :mad:
Anywhere else in the world is just about the same when people buy their first home, that is if they are lucky enough that their gov are capable enough to provide them with cheap public housing as heavenly as Singapore. -
Fairy:
Sorry to hear that :sad:
Not ALL HDB flats are priced cheap! My new HDB flat at the outskirt bought in the 90s direct from HDB is far from cheap. :mad:Harlequin:
Anywhere else in the world is just about the same when people buy their first home, that is if they are lucky enough that their gov are capable enough to provide them with cheap public housing as heavenly as Singapore. -
Has anyone watched “Undercover Boss” or “Hotel Hell”? Very interesting shows, which point us to the importance of having bosses who are able to connect with the ground.
For effective and successful governance, we need to be able to manage at both macro and micro levels. Policies at macro level help push the country forward, but at the same time, a system needs to be in place to understand and address problems at micro level as well.
In crafting policies, we need to have the foresight to plan 10 -20 years ahead, be able to anticipate potential problems and having preventive measures in place to counter them, not fire-fighting measures to tackle problems as they arise. And how do we anticipate problems? …by knowing the ground sentiments well. -
sunflower:
How does knowing the parking woes of residents prepare us for SARs, 9-11, banking crisis, eurozone crisis and interest rates below 1%?Has anyone watched “Undercover Boss” or “Hotel Hell”? Very interesting shows, which point us to the importance of having bosses who are able to connect with the ground.
For effective and successful governance, we need to be able to manage at both macro and micro levels. Policies at macro level help push the country forward, but at the same time, a system needs to be in place to understand and address problems at micro level as well.
In crafting policies, we need to have the foresight to plan 10 -20 years ahead, be able to anticipate potential problems and having preventive measures in place to counter them, not fire-fighting measures to tackle problems as they arise. And how do we anticipate problems? …by knowing the ground sentiments well.
Like it or not, high COE ain't the most important problem in the world. -
3Boys:
Well to business owners high Coe translates into higher transport costs. It is as important as property prices is part of operational costs and indirectly affect wages. Coe is not like oil prices where movement is beyond the control of the govt. if Coe is high and taxi fare is high and MRT is unreliable it would affect the productivity of the whole country. If cost of running a business is too high in Singapore then who would want to set up shop here? So if you say high Coe is an not important problem .. I don't know what to say. :scared:
How does knowing the parking woes of residents prepare us for SARs, 9-11, banking crisis, eurozone crisis and interest rates below 1%?sunflower:
Has anyone watched “Undercover Boss” or “Hotel Hell”? Very interesting shows, which point us to the importance of having bosses who are able to connect with the ground.
For effective and successful governance, we need to be able to manage at both macro and micro levels. Policies at macro level help push the country forward, but at the same time, a system needs to be in place to understand and address problems at micro level as well.
In crafting policies, we need to have the foresight to plan 10 -20 years ahead, be able to anticipate potential problems and having preventive measures in place to counter them, not fire-fighting measures to tackle problems as they arise. And how do we anticipate problems? …by knowing the ground sentiments well.
Like it or not, high COE ain't the most important problem in the world. -
Talk about the maid levy I will boil. We paid as much as the HKee to the maid, yet we get the second class maids because the maids get less than what we paid in Singapore! The difference goes to the Govt! How to expect us to get better maid like that? Think they say maid must have O level means only the better ones will come to Singapore? Most people also knows they can state A level min qualification and we will still get it - because in Indonesia everything can be faked, including their certificate! And we also know in Philipines they can have A level qualification but standard is so lowwwww.... :yikes:
cool_hi:
Good post! Rains!!!i totally agree!
For eg,when the mrt breaks down..govt just punish smrt by how!?
Fine them!!where the $ goes to?
Govt!!
But who were the ones inconvenienced & wasted their time+mayb also $ to take cab to rush to work?we citizens..
Are we compensated for our inconvenience & time wasted?no..
Can't the govt instead of fine smrt,should make them reduce bus fares & mrt fares by say 20-30cts per trip,for say 3-6mths,instead of fine smrt?
At least then I feel govt is thinking of their people!!
But now..no..govt fattening their own pockets..
Same goes for maid levy!! -
Harlequin:
Anywhere else in the world is just about the same when people buy their first home, that is if they are lucky enough that their gov are capable enough to provide them with cheap public housing as heavenly as Singapore.[/quote]Ahem.hmm. You sure Singapore has cheap and heavenly public housing?!!! :yikes:janet_lee88:
[quote=\"ngl2010\"]And the 7m people will increase the demand for property so supply will still play catching up. So, property prices will still go north? I hope I am wrong.
New couples having to wait 3 years minimum for their first flat...their BTO flat is just an empty shell. Young couples have to save for wedding and renovate their flat and buy furniture. Even if they go for the minimum decor, renovation and furniture adds up.
New flats are in non-mature estates. If these young couples stay there and then start a family, they will be busy fetching/sending bb to and fro parents' place which is usually not near. Reason is bcos newly wedded couples can hardly afford to pay premium prices for resale units near their parents.
I just wonder if my kids can afford to buy a flat in future...or they also face the scenario of having to buy flats in the outskirts. Property prices will not come down.
They should concentrate on their efforts on providing sufficient HDB flats for majority and leave the private property market alone as the old saying those rich people can take care of themselves. Let that be a free market and make people to work hard to achieve to own private property. Why they impose ABSD on Rich foreigner, let them pay premium for high end private property since we are selling them space in the air. This will benefit citizen.
The problem is insufficient HDB flats for majority, MND allows people to retain HDB flat after buying private properties now. They should go back to good old day where these up-grader must sell their HDB flat within 6 months after buying their private property so that they do not hog the HDB flat and create under supply of resale HDB flat. Instead of tackling this problem, they implemented cooling off measures! -
3Boys:
Alamak! When come to housing, the immigration controls the working permit, PR, foreginer, visitors etc.. from my common sense le..How come MND never got the figures from them first before planning for how many housing required to build for Singapore! You mean they overlooked this and the planning is up to what they feel like it! :yikes:
How does knowing the parking woes of residents prepare us for SARs, 9-11, banking crisis, eurozone crisis and interest rates below 1%?sunflower:
Has anyone watched “Undercover Boss” or “Hotel Hell”? Very interesting shows, which point us to the importance of having bosses who are able to connect with the ground.
For effective and successful governance, we need to be able to manage at both macro and micro levels. Policies at macro level help push the country forward, but at the same time, a system needs to be in place to understand and address problems at micro level as well.
In crafting policies, we need to have the foresight to plan 10 -20 years ahead, be able to anticipate potential problems and having preventive measures in place to counter them, not fire-fighting measures to tackle problems as they arise. And how do we anticipate problems? …by knowing the ground sentiments well.
Like it or not, high COE ain't the most important problem in the world.
They called this as foresight. Housing supply problem is not foresight la..shouldn't use foresight la.. It's because they wanted to cut so lean to maximum usage of the existing situation la and does not want to have a bigger buffer (why? money again!). .. When come to housing, they should not cut things so fine...all their poor planing la.. :imconstipated: -
3Boys:
What you’ve cited are global issues policies. There are many different levels in terms of policy making. BTW, knowing ground sentiments doesn’t mean getting into the trivial details.
How does knowing the parking woes of residents prepare us for SARs, 9-11, banking crisis, eurozone crisis and interest rates below 1%?sunflower:
Has anyone watched “Undercover Boss” or “Hotel Hell”? Very interesting shows, which point us to the importance of having bosses who are able to connect with the ground.
For effective and successful governance, we need to be able to manage at both macro and micro levels. Policies at macro level help push the country forward, but at the same time, a system needs to be in place to understand and address problems at micro level as well.
In crafting policies, we need to have the foresight to plan 10 -20 years ahead, be able to anticipate potential problems and having preventive measures in place to counter them, not fire-fighting measures to tackle problems as they arise. And how do we anticipate problems? …by knowing the ground sentiments well.
Like it or not, high COE ain't the most important problem in the world.
You would have to had watched the shows to understand what I mean. Some bosses just couldn’t, or refused to understand/accept what was happening.
And I do agree that some of the current batch of ministers are better than some of those from the 2nd batch (GCT era). During GCT time, I felt intensely that priorities have shifted away from the fundamentals of what it means to be a public servant.
Running a government is very different from running a profit driven company. I can tell you, it was a very tedious process, trying to transform and fit everything into quantifiable and measurable KPIs, to be “profit” driven, that certain things somehow gave way along the way.
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