Mr HDB save Sg fr Communists
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Lim Kim San (1916-2006) built many HDB and helped PAP
won the do-or-die balltle with Barisan_Sosialis_Party.
2.What would happen to Sg if Barisan_Sosialis_Party had won?
3.PAP won votes in 1960's with results ,not NATO--no action ,just talking.
3.Strait Times 21.06.2006,p H7,last second column:In 1959,OUT OF 1.6 MILLION population,about 300,000
4.How could he do this?He was a businessman and
lived in squatter areas and 250,000 in slums.
Taking over fr Sg Improvement Trust on 01.02.1960,
the HDB went on to complete 26,000 flats in slightly
over 3 years.By comparisons,the SIT built
23,019 in its 32 years of existence.
...(up to mar 1963),HDB built 31,317 units to house
350,000 or 20% ot population.
....by end of 1964,it completed 51,000 flats,providing
homes for about 25% of population.
know the operation of business world.He was against
government to employ workers to build HDB but
make full use of small contractors systems
to build HDB.
4.He explained how he did that:
by elimination corruption
by eradicting cartels
by forbidding anyone to fool around with specifications
5.Is it easy ?Look around our neighbours countries then u know,
you damn lucky SINGAPOREANS!! -
"Mr HDB save Sg fr Communists" - ironically, during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, Lim Kim San was arrested and tortured by the Japanese Kempetai - secret police - on suspicion of being pro-communist and pro-British.
Is it not even more ironical that during the same period of Japanese Occupation, MM LKY was working for the Japanese Military as an interpreter, and President S. R. Nathan was said to be working as a secret agent for the Kempetai ?
Wars certainly leave very untidy endings.
Lim Kim San's understanding of the local business and contracting process, allowed him to resolve Singapore's housing problems for the mass of middle-low income Singaporeans.
During his administration of HDB, the design team was able to create designs that resulted in HDB flats being built with such efficiency that it was reputed to complete one HDB unit every 45 minutes.
Those flat were sold at the low costs to Singaporeans that it made HDB famous, and allowed many young Singaporeans - during the early 1960s and 1970s - were able to complete their housing loans in about ten years and still have sufficient savings in the CPF for retirement.
The success of Lim Kim San's housing policy, allowed many Singaporeans to own low cost HDB flats to be sold later at three to four times higher then the original purchase price - and about a one-third lower to the price of Privately built flats called "condominiums".
This allowed many Singaporeans to make windfall profit from the sale of HDB flats, and helped many Singaporeans to upgrade to privately built flats or terrace house in the 1970s and early 198s.
Unfortunately, Lim Kim San could not stop the "politically motivated agenda" of taking a portion of the wealth made by Singaporeans from such HDB re-sale, and the wealth in the CPF accounts that they possessed during the late 1970s and through 1980s which allowed them to upgrade their homes.
During this period, the prices of HDB flats began to make gradual increases, while the unit size began to shrink in floor area - and with price increases continue climbing despite land being acquired with compensation at a fraction of market valuation, building material and construction costs based on the lowest competitive bids.
We have a situation today that younger Singaporeans could not afford to own an HDB Flat until they have a career that pays them a minimum sum of S$2,000 a month, and having saved enough for the minimum deposit for a housing loan, and being in a housing debt for the next twenty years of his working life.
With the present short-term employment contract promoted by the Government and the NTUC, how will the mortgage be served in between the lull period of career change ?
Like the other founding fathers of Singapore, Lim Kim San was also reputed to be "a quiet person distinterested in politics", and when accepting his role to contribute to Singapore and Singaporeans - he entered into Government service with full commitment to the responsibilities given to him - with little time for POLITICS.
Will the political landscape for Singapore be different - if those other Founding Fathers - all known to be quiet and disinterested in politics - have been more politically active in the Party Politics, instead of leaving the political manouvres and fixxing to LKY ? -
[quote]Originally posted by Atobe:
President S. R. Nathan[/url] was said to be working as a secret agent for the Kempetai ?
who said so .pl quote source.This is not so respectful.
2.how much it cost to do the infrastructure of new town?
how can govt to sell house and build new town at loss? -
Did you click on the url that was already given in the last post : "President S. R. Nathan"Originally posted by lionnoisy:Originally posted by Atobe:
President S. R. Nathan[/url] was said to be working as a secret agent for the Kempetai ?
who said so .pl quote source.This is not so respectful.
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2.how much it cost to do the infrastructure of new town?
how can govt to sell house and build new town at loss?
The cost of the infrastructure for a new town is recovered from the usage by the community over the long term period, if not already recovered from the poorly paid compensation - that is a fraction of market valuation - for the private properties seized for public housing. -
This kind of source also you dare to qoute...bravo bravo...wonder how your lecturers grade you...Originally posted by Atobe:Did you click on the url that was already given in the last post : "President S. R. Nathan" -
Originally posted by pilotsnoopy:
If a reputable website such as SFD is prepared to risk its credibility in publishing this letter, should the information not also be gleaned for the consideration by others ?
This kind of source also you dare to qoute...bravo bravo...wonder how your lecturers grade you...
It was through snoopy investigation and diligent digging that the truth will be discovered - it happened with the revelations of events at Watergate, Abu Ghraib, Iran-Contra affair, Clinton-Lewinsky, Bush's Iraq WMD program, Guantanamo.
Bravo to those "who dare to think differently" - what is the "Truth" ?
"we are constantly searching not for the truth, but for our conception of the truth, and we're not going to let something silly like the facts get in the way of that "
Is "there's a reason we abide by the accepted practice and conventional standards, and don't just selectively accept the facts we like and exclude the ones we don't. But in all these cases, that is precisely what occurred " ? -
My admiration and respect goes to Lim Kim San who help poor singaporean to own a house to have a shelter.
What happen to our current HDB ah? making hefty profit out of sporean? -
Originally posted by Atobe:
sigh...please get your sources and qoutes right...not asking you to use Harvard Referencing system but at least get your credible sources..
If a reputable website such as [b]SFD is prepared to risk its credibility in publishing this letter, should the information not also be gleaned for the consideration by others ?
It was through snoopy investigation and diligent digging that the truth will be discovered - it happened with the revelations of events at Watergate, Abu Ghraib, Iran-Contra affair, Clinton-Lewinsky, Bush's Iraq WMD program, Guantanamo.
Bravo to those "who dare to think differently" - what is the "Truth" ?
"we are constantly searching not for the truth, but for our conception of the truth, and we're not going to let something silly like the facts get in the way of that "
Is "there's a reason we abide by the accepted practice and conventional standards, and don't just selectively accept the facts we like and exclude the ones we don't. But in all these cases, that is precisely what occurred " ?
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SDF credible?you're making me laugh..the one about President Nathan is full of accusations but it does not even have a single source from any oral history or historical documents of which many have been declassified and released especially after 50th anniversary of the war...
any real intellect will also be aware of the different sources of information, not entirely having to qoute wholesale internet sources many of which are questionable and not verifiable...please...zzz -
the standard reason is always: "SG too small, land is scarce, so high price is justifiable."Originally posted by LittleTiger:My admiration and respect goes to Lim Kim San who help poor singaporean to own a house to have a shelter.
What happen to our current HDB ah? making hefty profit out of sporean?
Next step : COE for flats
$$$$$ keep them coming ~~!! suck them dry~!!
