HDB disputes claim that public agencies did not offer help to 70-year-old homeless man who sleeps at Henderson Hawker Centre

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HDB asserted: 'It is untrue that they were denied a rental flat because they had to wait a 10-year period from the sale of the flat. There is no such policy in place.'

that public agencies did not offer help to a 70-year-old Singaporean who was left homeless after being released from prison.

The opposition party member added that Mr Lim wishes to live with his brother but cannot do so as his brother sold his flat eight years ago. Citing an unspecified “HDB rule,” Bowyer said that the siblings must wait ten years before they are eligible to rent a flat together. “From what he described everyone keeps quoting rules of why this or that can’t happen, there is nothing they can do or bouncing him from person to person and MP to agency while nothing is being done. It seems adhering rigidly to a system is more important than a member of the Pioneer generations urgent need, and the lack of humanity and basic care is staggering.

HDB, which is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development, said that its officers and the MSF Singapore’s Social Service Office at Kreta Ayer have been in touch with Mr Lim since January this year and that MP Joan Pereira made appeals to HDB on behalf of HDB regarding his rental application well before Bowyer’s Facebook post.

 

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