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Read on: The lingering question among Singaporeans was "the
clearing up the slums of the 1960s and resettling squatters into
low-cost government-built housing". The policy of the Garmen to
resettle masses of people into HDB flats > Originally such flats
were built for those purposes however, that too, became an
explosive exploitation of the people who had to pay huge prices for
their homes! They were built not just to re-settle homeless or
landless people, but for sheer profits!. At first it seemed to be
justifiable as land exploitation as in view of the general communal
good, but when it comes to later acquisition was made compulsory to
include all homes and shop houses on the Island, the issue had
became an open question. Such strong hand tactics by implementation
of acquisition laws as were never debated satisfactory or
sufficiently to ease many minds of many people since the Politics
was a one-way party with law making and law empowering abilities.
However, land exploitation was to continue as a means to generate
revenues when land prices skyrocketed, and the only beneficiaries
were large landowners, banks and the biggest landowner, which is
the Garmen. Conflicts between the greedy landowners and the garmen
were often the undercurrent reason when animosities with the garmen
were to be expected. Hong Leong was sidelined many times because it
was one of the many involved in the conflict. The ordinary people
lost homes, land and shop houses under the Acts and amendments of
the Parliamentary legislative exploitation of the people and the
land consistently since there was hardly any opposition to be a
check and balance in the society. goto read about
Exploitation!:
copied from sgwiki at :
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