香港劏房家庭，一家四口擠9平米房子，煮飯得去廁所煮

[大蛇丸 Orochimaru]

 

[nasilemak100]

why hk so jialat ah? what is their version of pap doing

 

[maomee]

there is a significant difference in Hong Kong's and Singapore's housing situation. For the former, land is in the hands of the developers/tycoons. a legacy of the colonial government. Singapore, thanks to LKY and his colleagues for the Land Acquisition Act in 1966, land in Singapore is thus majority owned by the Government through its apparatus the likes of SLA, URA, JTC and HDB. Not saying our dear Government is not interested in generating revenue but through controlling the land supply and ownership, it basically has everybody's balls in its hands.

Issue now is, the spawns of the PAP old guards are pretty much very into GDP/figures/revenue. at all costs. so there is a real possibility that there will be more social tension going forward. humans are evolutionary territorial. never designed to survive in a tiny space. trying to squeeze 10m population in a 710 sqkm is just gonna create a country of angry, fiesty and self centered nut cases. once the social fabric and what defines a nation is torn, it's game over for you and me. not for THEM for sure.

 

[maomee]

why hk so jialat ah? what is their version of pap doing

unfortunately they can't do much. not even the central government in beijing. this is a legacy from the colonial era and it is simply impossible at current stage to wrest land away from private hands. lee kuan yew introduced the land acquisition act in 1966 as he had the foresight and almost absolute right to do whatever he wants in a newly independent Singapore. through this act, the State can acquire land on a compulsory basis and compensate you according to "market values". back in the 70s and early 80s, our family had decent land holdings in north eastern part of Singapore and tengah (my great grandmother was buried in and had an entire hill overlooking tengah reservoir exclusively since that land belonged to our family then). the government acquire this land from us back in around 1981 and we had to exhume her tomb. LKY had the iron in him and thus our housing "issues" now are nothing compared to hong kong.