According to a Customer Service Manager, Ms. Low Ai Ling, whom I spoke to at HDB today, securing a flat in Singapore very simply boils down to "pure luck" because of the random computer balloting system. No further prioritization to assist helpless, desperate homeseekers who are in a greater urgency to move in than a couple in their early twenties who just graduated from college.
The HDB officers we met and spoke to at the seminar told us to call / write in to HDB. Only to be given an answer that yes, it's based on luck.
This is the best part. She told me to expand my BTO options to "non-mature areas" that are so far from our parents, totally contradicting the government's call to stay near them. Now we are wrong for wanting to be filial? We also want to respond to the government's call to set a family earlier, having been together for 9 years now. But how so? once again, because we don't have a house...
I'm confused. All these mixed messages and media coverage. False sense of positivity around the new public housing policies. I don't feel anything. How do you feel a sense of belonging and patriotism to stay in Singapore when you can't even find a home at more than half a million dollars?
We have been scammed before, when we first moved to Punggol a decade ago. Punggol 21 didn't happen. Now all these new plans are announced in the lead up to the next General Election. Once bitten, twice shy. It's only normal that I'm so skeptical.
Prove me wrong, PLEASE.
