Victory Party
Confidence in Harmony
vying for greater personal autonomy to construct a harmonious neighborhood
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Current challenges
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High Build to Order (BTO) price
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Long waiting time for new flat
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Neglected Neighbourhoods
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Presence of ethnic quota
How Victory Plans to overcome these challenges
Housing is undeniably crucial to every one of us. Through implementing suitable policies, we will be able to assure Singaporeans have a roof over their heads as well as a livable environment.
Project "live then pay"
Our party is determined to modify HDB BTO prices according to applicants’ monthly income, ensuring that it will be possible to be paid off within ten years. In this sphere, we wish to implement “Live Then Pay” for newly weds.
Not just are we strategizing to cut down BTO prices, we also have our eyes on different payment plans. Due to the drastic difference between young couples' pay and BTO price, housing can be quite a critical issue. Our party aims to allow driven young couples with stable incomes to move into the apartment when they register for marriage. The couple can later on pay the BTO down payment within three years of their marriage with zero interest, which will be more cost-savvy than bank mortgages.
How will this help?
A lenient payment deadline allows spontaneous marriage, instead of planning way ahead. High BTO prices are causing many eligible couples to get married in their 30s instead of their prime. This policy will in-turn boost Singapore’s low fertility rates.
integrate
Up-scale
kampung
villages
We aim to fully utilize Singapore’s limited land area. Old and rundown private housing in the outskirts will be revamped into upscale kampong villages. Initially, we plan to reinvigorate one of the poorest neighbourhoods as a pioneer project: Jalan Kudoh.
We will multiply the benefits of existing public housing kampong neighbourhoods, such as the one in Sembawang and the retirement kampung in Admiralty, in numerous districts in Singapore.
In the future, we hope to engineer a BTO kampung village for all new couples and single individuals to live.
How will this help?
Socially, rejuvinating forgotten neighbourhoods to match the privileges and facilities afforded to the rest of our island is in line with our values of equality and harmony. With our aid, barriers of accessibility of interaction with other neighbours will collapse and give rise to self-initiated bonding in enticing shared spaces.
Economically, through replacing private landed housing areas and dilapilated housing estates with HDB skyskrapers, it increases residents per square feet of land. More Singaporeans will be able to settle down in these integrated spaces with abundant opportunities to mingle.
Furthermore, by increasing the supply of HDB units, it will in turn lead to a fall in HDB prices, thus empowering Singaporeans purchasing power.
Removing the Ethnic Quota (EIP scheme)
Our society has now attained a level of multi-racial integration. To promote racial harmony, we propose the ethnic quotas governing citizens’ home ownership of HDB flats to be removed.
How will this help?
This will allow all Singaporeans freedom of choice for their home locations, regardless of race. Our party believe that Singaporeans have the ability to mingle in common places on their own instead of only confining to their racially composited flat. Citizens can now afford the autonomy to make meaningful interracial bonds independently.
Response to The Straits Times Article, 3,970 BTO flats launched in Sengkang, Yishun, Toa Payoh and Tampines (May 22, 2018)
We believe that there should be modification to the archaic EIP racial quota scheme.
In the article, a PropNex key executive officer highlighted that the rarity of such opportune launches has resulted in pent-up demand and thus stiffer competition among all races.
We are proposing that the EIP undergoes a gradual loosening to give Singaporeans an abundance of housing opportunities unimposed by artificial government regulations on housing.
This will involve calling upon the current PAP and HDB representatives to experiment with making this launch of BTO flats a pioneering project of BTO flats made available without ethnic quotas capping any ethnic group. This can help seal the legitimacy of Victory’s campaign platform position on housing.
Victory Party trusts in the community’s ingrained ability to veer away from racial enclaves because years of instituted norms necessitates Singaporeans to put equality into practice independent of the government’s orders.
Victory is here to vie for the victory of these applicants who have lost many battles in the procurement of BTO flats. The time is now to make Singapore a land of real equality instead of forcibly instituted equality.
Victory Speaks
Campaign Videos
Recent Reports Relevant to Support Our Modification to the EIP
The policies that shaped a multiracial nation
August 8, 2017
As with many previous policies that had to do with entrenching multiracialism, the prescriptive approach ignited intense sentiments and public discussion. But seen in the cold light of day, analysts TODAY interviewed agree that these measures have generally achieved the aim of averting “racial enclaves” — an issue that remains relevant today, with global events signalling increased resentment towards minorities and non-citizens.
Lawrence Wong
Channel News Asia
HDB flat sellers hampered by ethnic integration policy can get extension
January 9, 2018
Mr Wong was responding to a question from Member of Parliament (MP) for Pasir-Ris Punggol GRC Zainal Sapari, who had asked about the assistance given to sellers who face problems selling their flat due to the ethnic integration policy (EIP).
"Sellers will not be able to sell their flat to a particular buyer if the sale causes their blocks' or neighbourhoods' EIP quota to exceed," HDB says on its website.
Lisa Li
The Online Citizen
Race Issues in Singapore: Is the HDB Ethnic Quota becoming a farce?
February 17, 2011
The PAP government's unwillingness to admit that EIP can negatively affect public housing prices based on race merely sweeps it under the carpet. At the very least, they need to admit that some Singapore do suffer under these race-based policies in order to genuinely discuss how to minimize these problems.
HDB
Enquiry on Buyer's Eligibility under the Ethnic Integration Policy and SPR Quota
Updated 2018
This service allows you to check the buyer's eligibility to buy into a particular block under the Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) and the Singapore Permanent Resident (SPR) Quota.
Property Guru
How the ethnic quota can affect your selling/buying ability
May 22, 2017
There’s an archaic HDB rule that has been a key deciding factor in the successful balloting of a BTO; the ethnic quota.
The Straits Times
Singapore General Election 2015 - Workers' Party on Housing
September 9, 2015
1.5 First-Timer Application Rate. We propose HDB should maintain a buffer supply of new flats to meet unanticipated rises in demand and reduce the average number of times applicants have to apply before they are successful in booking a new flat. HDB should aim to keep the current first-timer application rate at 1.5 to minimise the cost to couples trying to start a family and to prevent the building up of pent-up demand."
Removing the Ethnic Quota. As our society has now attained a level of multi-racial integration, we propose the ethnic quotas governing citizens’ home ownership of HDB flats should be removed to allow all Singaporeans freedom of choice of home locations, regardless of race."
Recent Reports Relevant to Support Our Move to Integrate Up-scale Kampung Villages
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/residents-collect-keys-at-singapores-first-retirement-kampung
The Straits Times
Residents collect keys at Singapore's first "retirement kampung"
August 12, 2017
At the kampung's first community day on Saturday, Mr Khaw Boon Wan, Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Minister for Transport, said there have been occasional calls for retirement villages here, emulating those seen in Australia and the US.
Rather than a retirement village run by private operators, Kampung Admiralty is a Government-led effort so that "seniors can live happily, actively and healthily in a HDB town", he added.
To achieve this, Mr Khaw, adviser to Sembawang's Grassroots Organisations, said Kampung Admiralty is designed to fight against loneliness, ill-health, depression and inconsiderate behaviour by encouraging inter-generational bonding, social interactions and active ageing.
TODAYonline
The Big Read: When good neighbours are the community’s first line of defence
June 17, 2017
While many Singaporeans have lamented the demise of the “kampung spirit”, it appears that community bonds here are fairly strong, based on TODAY’s interviews with dozens of residents and a straw poll. And such bonds could also help prevent a terror attack, not just deal with the aftermath, experts noted.
Experts noted that the built environment has a role to play in fostering community bonding as well. “In order to encourage social interaction, the built environment needs to be safe, secure, age-friendly to children and elderly, and should evoke the pleasant ambience of a genteel residential neighbourhood,” said Associate Professor Fung John Chye from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) School of Design and Environment.
In response to queries, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) said it has planned and designed its estates to encourage neighbourly interaction - in line with its mission “not just to build flats” but also to create communities.
Assoc Prof Fung said: “Most HDB neighbourhoods (are) being fragmented by driveways for vehicular access, which segregate the residential blocks and impede seamless direct access to the amenities.” He suggested the creation of a vehicle-free and easily accessible space in the middle of each neighbourhood to facilitate gathering and chance encounters among residents.
Health Services & Systems Research, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Families, Friends, and the Neighborhood of Older Adults: Evidence from Public Housing in Singapore
May 15, 2011
Findings suggest that the public neighborhood-built environment in Singapore plays a positive role in the social interactions of the elderly. Knowledge of the factors that decrease the risk of social isolation will have implications for studying morbidity and mortality among the elderly.
TODAYonline
Inspirational tales from society’s margins
September 20, 2017
To the poor, society can appear to be suffering from collective amnesia about their struggles. A woman living in a low-income neighbourhood once told me: “In Singapore, I am alone. I have to be strong … No one is here to protect me. If you show people your weakness, they will condemn you.”
Just opposite Robertson Quay, a district frequented by the well-heeled for brunch and yoga, is one of Singapore’s poorest neighbourhoods — Jalan Kukoh. The neighbourhood is cut off from the wider Chinatown community by a highway, rendered invisible to the city around it.
hdb.gov.sg/cs/infoweb/doc/community-seminar-nus
CHO IM SIK (Assist Prof. Architecture) and HO KONG CHONG (Assoc Prof. Sociology)
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Impact of Built Environment on Community Bonding
May 15, 2011
Across all precincts, residents with higher frequency of amenities usage* tend to have greater sense of belonging to their precinct as well, suggesting that usage of amenities do help residents form positive feelings of sense of belonging to their precinct and community