Last week we asked you how we could keep prime area HDB flats fair, and we got a good number of answers. It’s also timely, as a little more information regarding new flat policies have come up: as of 12th December, the Business Times has also reported that the government may have to give out more subsidies, to support the higher prices of prime area HDB flats.
Before we get into that, let’s look at some of your proposed solutions:
What did most of you think would work?
Note: Many responses involved a mix of the solutions below, so this doesn’t add up to 100 per cent
Some of the more interesting suggestions we noted were:
Increasing the MOP to 99 years
This would mean that the flat can never be sold on the open market, or fully rented out; the only possible buyer would be HDB itself....