We are excited that Singapore’s housing landscape is poised for a significant transformation following an announcement by the Prime Minister during the recent National Day Rally HDB to launch new Plus flats in choicer areas on August 21, 2023. The introduction of new BTO flat classifications – Prime, Plus, and Standard – reflects the nation’s […]
After struggling through the Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals (CDRT) process for two years to resolve secondhand smoke exposure issues, unfortunately, it has proven to be an ineffective avenue to do so. The CDRT does not have the ability to deal with chain smoking and public health issues. It also did not consider the urgency and […]
I have a smoking neighbor who lives across my unit but I was never bothered by his smoke until I started to work from home (WFH) during the lockdown period of Covid-19. The smoker was working from home too as I could see him in his opened windows and door. He started to smoke randomly […]
I’m a full-time homemaker staying in a five-room HDB flat with my parents and two children. We have been facing the secondhand smoke problem for about five years already. It’s frustrating that we have to breathe in secondhand smoke from our smoking neighbours every day. None of our family members smoke as we want to […]
Living with a chain-smoking neighbour is already a nightmare and being surrounded by multiple chain-smoking neighbours in a HDB flat is even worse than living in hell. Smoky, hazy, smelly, and choking are daily experiences. It is worse at night when the smokers are having a smoking marathon till the wee hours of the next […]