154th AGGRESSIVELY CENSORS CHAN CHUN SING'S SPEECH ABOUT THE RICH-POOR GAP

[h=1]ST AGGRESSIVELY CENSORS CHAN CHUN SING'S SPEECH ABOUT THE RICH-POOR GAP[/h]
Post date:
26 Feb 2015 - 5:53pm








Chan Chun Sing recently participated in a panel discussion organised by the Real Estate Developers Association of Singapore (REDAS) and attended by about 50 students from NUS and NTU.
At the event, he spoke about several issues including how to bridge the rich-poor gap and suggested that putting subsidized HDB flats in prime locations was not a good solution.
He spoke about a variety of reasons why this is not a good solution including that it was unfair for just some people to get a windfall because they were lucky to get a good location.
Full Story See: CHAN CHUN SING: IT'S NOT FAIR TO BUILD HDB FLATS IN GOOD AREAS AND SELL THEM CHEAPLY
His comments were initially reported in full in the Straits Times but a short while later, some of Mr Chan's comments were mysteriously removed as ST deleted their original article and posted a new one in its place.
The original copy is still available to be viewed through Google Cache and the new version is now located here.
Many of the comments which were cut were not actually bad in themselves so it is not clear why they were removed from the article. Perhaps our Straits times, which could easily be mistaken for the PR agency for the government felt they put him in a bad light as they weren't very articulate.
Here are a list of some of the comments that didn't make the cut:






When talking about the unfairness of allowing some people to purchase highly subsidized HDBs in prime locaitons he asked the audience: “Is it fair for someone to ‘tikam’ (Malay for taking a random chance), ballot and pay an artificially low price for a flat in the heart of Downtown, and five years later, after the Minimum Occupancy Period, enjoy a windfall?"
Mr Chan also raised questions about whether simply forcing pepole to live near each other meant that they would mingle. “I doubt many of them even walk to each others’ precincts,” said Mr Chan in relation to the rich and poor in his constituency.
Another comment which was removed included "Many people would wax lyrical, but we must touch our hearts, will you look down on someone because he stays in a rental flat in the same block?"
This comment was in reference to whether more well off people would complain that they had to live near poorer people.
While there is nothing clearly wrong with these comments that Mr Chan had said, perhaps the heplful PR team at ST felt that they sounded too condescending, elitist or just plain silly so they cut them away for him.
Maybe they looked at some of the critical comments online about Mr Chan's words and decided they needed to do some cleaning up for their masters.
What do you think?

[h=1]CHAN CHUN SING: IT'S NOT FAIR TO BUILD HDB FLATS IN GOOD AREAS AND SELL THEM CHEAPLY[/h]




Post date:
26 Feb 2015 - 12:26am












Minister for Social and Family Development, Chan Chin Sing, explained that simply putting HDB flats in good locations and selling them to poorer people at low prices is not a good solution to bridging the rich-poor gap.
In particular, he pointed out that it is unfair for equally less-advantaged people who miss out on such flats in prime locations and he also indicated that simply forcing people from different income backgrounds to live near each other doesn't mean they will actually mingle.
Minister Chan was speaking at the inaugural Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore (REDAS) panel discussion attended by about 50 students from NUS and NTU.
One of the issues raised was how to bridge the rich-poor gap and it was discussed whether building HDB flats on prime land, where many wealthy people stay, and giving those flats to less well-off people could achieve this.
To this suggestion, Minister Chan explained that it was not an ideal solution as it was inherently unfair. He asked if it was fair that someone randomly ballots for HDB projects and if they are lucky, they get highly subsidised flats in prime locations which they can definitely resell for handsome profits after the minimum occupancy period of 5 years.
He pointed out that others who also ballot in the same batch but aren't as lucky would not get the same windfall and they would in essence be "cross-subsidising" the lucky ones who got prime locations.










Minister Chan pointed to one recently example where this happened. The Pinnacle@Duxton project was a HDB project which just recently reached the minimum occupancy period. Residents who bought their 4 room flats for less than $380,900 are selling them now for up to $955,000. Similarly those who bought 5-room flats for less than $439,400 are now selling them for up to $1 million+.
This profit can then be used to buy another home in a non mature estate and still have a lot of left over. Those who did not have the chance to buy at Duxton don't get this opportunity despite paying similar prices for their flats at launch.
Minister Chan also asked whether any social mixing actually took place. For example, he noted that Tanjong Pagar, his own constituency, has upmarket developments like Pinnacle@Duxton but in nearby estates there are also one-room rental flats such as those at Jalan Kukoh or Jalan Minyak occupied by very poor residents.
"I doubt many of them even walk to each others' precincts," said Mr Chan.
He also pointed out that bridging the rich-poor gap was more than just forcing people to live together and it was about how we as a society and as individuals treat each other. Mr Chan raised the point that if rich people were not happy to live side by side with poor people, they might just end up looking down on them more and complaining about such arrangement affecting their property values.
Instead, he suggested that bridging the gap had to come from the heart. "I encourage the more successful people to give their time, talents and treasures," he said.

Only an idiot thinks that way.......cum on bozo, use ur fuckless brain a little can or not? You're going to be our next PM....for fuck sake. Show some foresight and creativity can or not?

After my posting on this forum , the PAP realized that Kee Chiu's speech contradicted current policy on ethnic quota in HDB blocks. Based on Kee Chiu's statement, the ethnic quota in HDB block is a flaw then.

I suspect if the MSM reporters do not watch the Minister's backs they will regret it even if what they report is 100% true. I don't think they can do much about it. The lower level staff are people doing jobs. Let's not demonize them. Anyway , we no longer depend on them for information.
I will agree somewhat with what CCS is saying. If we want the government to have a heart for the less privileged, start with us. If you have a heartless people you will have a heartless government.

ChowCheeSeng brain filled with cowdung.