Lee Hsien Loong
Just came home from my Meet-The-People session in Teck Ghee. We had 114 cases tonight, about our usual number, both from Teck Ghee and the rest of Ang Mo Kio GRC.
A fair share were residents with housing problems. But the root cause is family breakups. One resident I saw was locked out of his marital home years back, recently divorced, and has transferred the flat to his ex-wife. Another recent divorcee is having to sell her flat, leaving her and her teenage daughter to fend for themselves, with no other relatives here to fall back on. Both asked me for HDB rental flats. I often receive such messages through Facebook too.
Family breakups lead to so many other problems: housing, financial difficulties, custody of children, etc. MPs do our best to help, and HDB is building more rental flats. But ultimately the family members have to work things out themselves, and ideally avoid breaking up in the first place. That's why strong families are so important. – LHL
