I see where your coming from, but I don't really think HDB model would work here in HK.

@@PatheticTV hmmph why would you think so.

@@PatheticTV Why not?

Lionel Wan Designing and understanding a certain demographic of people is quite complicated. Singapore’s HDB zoning was taken precedence from a few different master plans used in the USA and Europe back in the 1920s. Architects like Le Corbusier tried to do a master plan for high rise public housing, with open spaces like Parks in between each block, but ultimately plans like these failed because of the demographics of people. The poor ended up clustering in these high rise buildings, with crime rates high and wide spread of diseases because people who were poorer lived in these areas, and in the end, the high rise public buildings had a poor reputation similar to a slum. However, a master plan like that worked in Singapore, probably due to our population density as well as lack of land area. Likewise, we need to understand the demographics of Hong Kong. It is extremely population dense, and with land so precious in HK, I don’t think the government can afford to utilise a similar layout to Singapore’s urban landscape. Any land in Hong Kong that is available is immediately used to build office buildings for profit, leaving little space for public amenities. And not to mention, the extremely high cost of re-zoning and reconstruction of an entire city.

@@JarodPlaysGames Until the civil right era of 1960 in America, black and white do no live in same neighborhood, they have separate schools, they even have separate public toilets. That social divisions will scared their society for long time to come. America never have something like Singapore HDB and they never will. HDB is not just architecture designs of high rise and parks. It is a national scheme.There is no precedence in USA or Europe before Singapore, only cautionary tales from their failed public housing schemes. How Singapore HDB got it right: 1) It is for majority 80% of the population, not only for lower socioeconomic. 2) It is spread all over Singapore, not only in a few undesirable area. 3)It is a market lead system. People can buy, sell and rent their HDB flats. They can up size or down size as their situations change. 4) It create two parallel thriving housing markets in Singapore. HDB flat market for ordinary people and free hold condos for rich and foreign buyers. 5) Housing department organised the maintenance, to make sure no slums are formed. 6) the government enforced ethnic quota for HDB flats, to make sure no ethnic enclaves are formed. HK and Singapore are similar size, similar population density, similar culture. Most lands in HK are in the hands of government. HK can surely take Singapore precedence and solve their housing problem.

Perfect Singlish, still English but accent and intonation is difficult to understand unless you spend some time living there.

Dont know why but it seems like almost all BTO apartments are very hot and stuffy. Its like they are forcing us to buy aircon.

when he talked about not relying on the ceiling fan and less on the aircon, my husband and i rolled our eyes so far back until turned white. i swear our living room has 2 standing fans and we jitao on the aircon when we have guests.

This happens bcos of our goverment!!!

The average size of three bed rooms units are similar all over the world. That doesn't prove anything.

Down right Rubbish. LKY sent out his flat builder to everywhere to study. The master planner in charge then was, Dr. Liu Thai Ker. He used to work for renowned architect IM.Pei

Amin Rahman location location location.

@@Colourisedspoon no... location is between two comparable unit types. in fact, location is becoming less important as a factor today due to decentralization of the town as a business area. There are many research papers showing how greater transport routes have increased connectivity in Singapore and improved housing prices regardless of location. in fact, BTO is not more expensive. they are meant to be cheaper than the resale prices. however, some BTO in prime areas appear more costly but still fetches a good bargain compared to their resale counterparts in the same area. There is an extremely high demand for these BTO as buyers know they will get a significant return on investment. Hence, HDB applies a mark-up to account for this demand. Nonetheless, many Singaporean try their luck to ballot with only the lucky ones securing a unit.

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@@ianhomerpura8937 Should we read subs or watch video ?

@@Zack_V both if youre competent enough

The plan is to discourage car ownership dumbass

you don't need a car if the whole country is an island with good public transport

pity Singaporeans that cannot afford to stay in landed houses. hdb looks like bird cage. I'm lucky that I'm not born in Singapore

@@hc8120 HDBs aren't even bird cages lmao at least Singaapore has a better living environment

H C this morning my boss said something rather ignorant. I whispered to my colleague sitting next me “she gotta be the most ignorant person I ever met.” My colleague laughed and replied, “trust me, there are many more” I laughed in disbelief. I came back home after a Long day of work. Open up this video and scroll down for the comments. After reading your comment, I immediately message my colleague. “You’re right”

Rn they only care abt quantity not quality

@@SBS2824Cc i think its good enough considering how small Singapore is

So you want is to live in the street?

Better that than be like the US with its housing crisis