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MND to SDP: Housing system only needs ‘fine-tuning’

The Ministry of National Development (MND) has expectly declined the Singapore Democratic Party's (SDP) invitation to discuss its proposals to resolve housing issues in Singapore, saying that the system only needs "fine-tuning" (see reply from MND below). SDP has earlier launched its version of national housing policy plan,...

Is the HDB resale market really showing signs of stabilizing?

Speaking in Parliament on Wed (14 Nov), Minister Khaw said that the HDB resale market is showing signs of stabilizing. The annual Resale Price Index (RPI) growth has gone down from 14.1% in 2010 to 10.7% last year. And in the first nine months of this year, the figure stood at 3.9%. However, do take note that it is the "growth"...

Woman to Police: I’m from Residential Committee

A netizen posted an incident involving a Residential Committee (RC) member on Stomp yesterday (14 Nov). The RC member's brother (in black shirt and pants) was in involved in a fight with two shopkeepers in their 50s over a return of a toilet seat purchase. Police was called and the RC member (woman in blue dress) arrived after...