It's actually full of complaints directed at the government but it is a good and safe place to live.

@@laylaminrir Yeah. It's filled with ingrate netizens who just don't appreciate the consistent measures our govt has put in places to end homelessness since the nation's founding.

we aren't that perfect singapore's got stuff america doesn't(eg. state sponsored healthcare, mandated rigorous education), america's got stuff singapore doesn't(eg. freedom of speech, rights to own firearms) homelessness is still a problem here since the 60s, it's just dropped so drastically that it's negligible today also not everyone's worrying about the homeless, most have too much on their plate to care about them can't deny it's a good place to live in tho

I am a Singaporean living in San Francisco. The homeless situation here is extremely acute. Many of the homeless people are also mentally ill an drug addicts. Many San Franciscans are just tired of the homeless problem that has been going on for so many years without any signs of improvements.

There's not many homeless in Asia. It's a western thing.

There's a difference in meaning. Homeless simply means anyone without a home, as the word suggests. It can include those living in temporary housing or shelters, as well as those living in the streets. Rough sleeping strictly means you're sleeping in the streets.

Rough sleeping can occur when people are chase out of their homes etc.

For example, it's like I have work that is three hours away from my home so I choose to sleep on a park bench as the commute takes too long. It's different from being homeless as they choose to sleep outside. They work too, and they aren't using budget motels or anything because it's just sleep, they need to save money, and they can go home on weekends.

Those singaporeans are not poor or homeless. They are choosing to sleep outdoors. They do have a fully-paid apartment but they are quarreling with a housemate or family member.

Having just social service personnel go around and talk to these homeless people is not enough. We need to provide a bed/sleep mat with a meal, cleaning facilities and maybe a first aid station (where a social worker(s) can be there as well to discuss ways forward). I don't see a problem making some of our community center halls (maybe from 9:30pm to 6:30am and serve a dual function as a temp shelter and for other community activities)or void decks to make actual infrastructure and support for these people to get back on their feet or reorganise themselves.

@@cvhawkeye6255 Why is it govt's fault and govt have to bail out inconsiderate, nasty citizens? If you are a grown-up, shouldn't you bear the consequences of your actions or inaction? You virtue-signalling hypocrite ever work in social services or a soup kitchen? How many rough sleepers you ever approach before?

@@scbchong6964 Did I say its the govt fault? Or anyone's fault? Govt I believe is the main entity that can lead such an initiative because it requires a wide field of interdepartmental/disciplinary planning. Most Singapore charities don't have the broad skillset or authority (eg help from the police and social manpower to gather and initially direct the homeless) to develop such social infrastructure even with monetary support. Look not everyone can succeed in this world, misfortune (eg health issues, social abuse, bad habits/gambling/drinking/drugs, bankruptcy, unemployment long list etc) happens quite often some self inflicted some indirect. Whatever is the case, they are down and out and we should help them recover if they are willing to remotivate themselves. Oh I have approach many rough sleepers not only in Singapore but in the UK. Everyone can drop a few dollars to them but the next day you see them return, because giving them money/help this way actually make them latch on and continue begging and sleeping rough. They have no means to improve their lives or even know how to. And yes I have help in soup kitchens as a helper before, including gathering hand me down clothes to help, its only for a few days, but I gave me some exposure on their plight. I have had many family arguments and have spent days wondering overnight, so I know how some families feel in which a place to cool down and talk is always good to clear your mind. When it comes to family arguments some people just don't want to talk about their dirty laundry to their friends, but may talk to a social worker in confidence. Our social infrastructure, needs to improve and give the needy the chance to regenerate their lives, this should be included the help and not just the immediate issues of a place to go away from the elements of rough sleeping.

@@cvhawkeye6255 Govt has been taking the lead, but the uninformed finger-pointing and blaming continues. re: ...Most Singapore charities don't have the broad skillset or authority... Talk nonsense. Too many virtue-signalling hypocrites are self-righteous and holier-than-thou attitude against govt. In SG, too many hypocrite SJW trying to grab trophy "poor" so that they can feel good about themselves. re: ...we should help them recover if they are willing to remotivate themselves.... Then the fault and blame should lie with the persistent rough sleepers, right? Hey, these are adults making a nuisance of themselves and hypocrites like you want to blame the govt? re: ...Our social infrastructure, needs to improve and give the needy the chance to regenerate their lives... The govt takes care of the youngest, oldest, weakest, the handicapped and most vulnerable very well already. Don't need hypocrites like you to bitch, complain, point finger and blame them all the time. You such a bleeding heart with so many solutions why you never set up NGO? All talk, no action?

Yes deport them. Put the law in place.

Is it? None of my Msian colleagues own condos, land or cars leh.

@@90taetaeya you must be ga na bluff. A second hand car only cost $25000 ringgit. Now is exchange rate $3.10

Do not compare US to Singaporeans. There is no comparable. US has lot of homeless, there is no system to help homeless in the US. The Government of Singapore at least is trying hard, and that's why Singapore has very few homeless

@@MB-bp4zd U.S. DOES have systems to help the homeless. I've been PART of them. I was homeless MYSELF (MANY years ago). Everyone has a different cause of their homelessness, that is one of the reasons it is challenging to help EVERYONE! For example, drug addicts and people with mental health issues are MUCH more difficult to help, than people who lost jobs or, have suffered sudden, catastrophic illnesses or injury.

Those singaporeans are rough-sleeping by choice, silly. They have a fully-paid home but want the free wifi and cool night air. Shows how safe and comfortable tropical singapore is.

Well said!!

This is the advice the Government should follow.

Nobody freezes in Singapore😂 But we should get them help

Before you go SJW, you better ask about the backgrounds of those rough sleepers. Most are toxic men with personality or mental disorders. You have misplaced compassion.

@@scbchong6964 your comprehension is appalling. Get your upstairs checked. What you said is not relevant to what i posted

@@malita354 Enough of your pseudo-intellectual, virtue-signalling hypocrisy lah. Why always point finger and blame govt? Working adults complain and bitch so much but consequences are never your own fault?

Interview and befriend them to find out Lol

@@godsamazinggrace5331 You make a very good point from your jest. I think many of us don't know the true cost (namely time and resources) of being socially responsible to actually help. It actually takes a significant infrastructure to make an ideal happen (ie to return a homeless individual to normality, a bed to return to, a place to get cleaned, some social core (people to talk with mutual respect to share and discuss ways forward), if still young < 65y say to re-motivate the person to contribute as a volunteer (initially) to earn his keep and perhaps to full or partial employment. For those older, then we (namely the Gahman and charity) need to ensure basic health and accommodation can be provided (could be just a bed, access to basic facilities and enough to eat, even a dorm place is S$250-300 pm to service an individual so the cost can build up to really help them) with of course some access to human interaction. Most of us think ... alamak just give few dollars to a homeless bagger solves his problem, remember that few dollars can only perhaps help him/her to the next meal (then he/she will be back to bagging and back to square 1 and their lives will never change). And with the pandemic, more people are going to be trapped in homelessness.

@@cvhawkeye6255 Indeed Meeting their basic needs of accommodation matters much Thanks for sharing your thoughts 👍

If one has to sleep on the street to save on rent, it's a pretty pathetic situation to be in. It's hard to imagine anyone happy doing this. This person is trapped in a poverty trap, only marginally better than being unemployed. There's not much difference.

@@kathklim Pathetic? By saving on rents they can retire 10 years earlier then us.

Rich one drive car complain petrol

Singapore is hardly a perfect country. People need to broaden their horizons and accept the fact. Instead of focusing on the flaws of other countries and bashing on them. Why not initially welcome those flaws into Singapore as they already exists here and work on them. Singapore is the same as any, the innate desire to progress as a nation. You expect the government to scope in on the various tenets that are categorized as potential harm, that progress will only stretch out longer and thinner. gst increase, petrol price increase etc... are the requirements of growth. The reason on why they increased are because citizens are demanding more welfare. As anything, it is undeniably quid pro quo. You demand more, the country demands more. Simple ideal to grasp. You could argue that the demands for the increase of welfare are fictitious, and yet I see complaining and talking amongst their cliques about what the nation can do for better welfare. They do not directly ask for them but words do have certain influence and they travel. People are constantly desiring for Sg to be a utopia and being inherently different from other countries. but how? the existing problems are the same, the ideal that our nation is built upon are also the same compared to others. How can ppl expect differently in a uniform world. Why poverty in a (____) country? is definitely ignorant to ask after expressing "politically correct answer", the juxtaposition between those two sentences is definitely not laudable. Poverty is required however shamed. Sg ppl of any age desire for more money and higher paid jobs, sure go ahead. But at the expense of other unfortunate ppl. it is inevitable. Your minuscule facet of a perfect ideal is non existent. Do not use the country's method of enhancing your welfare and in return spit on their faces on how we have poverty. Reflect on yourself and ask yourself why your desires conflict with your perfect ideal of a world and then come back to this issue to further assess your viewpoint.

@@javan5538 aiyo, i politically correct also cannot satisfy you leh. Ok, ok, you tell me how i should say then you wont kill me

@@malita354 as i said, reflect. Words possess power, use them wisely.

Before you go SJW, you better ask about the backgrounds of those rough sleepers. Most are toxic men with personality or mental disorders. You have misplaced compassion.

Lies again? HDB Paris

Yeah

But we Singaporean are psycho by the government to save and buy HDB flat all the while. 99 yrs leasehold. 30 or 40 years ago may still be a viable solution. But from now looking 30 or 40 years forward I am not so sure my kids would think so.

There are shooting at night in manila daily.

These is what most people think when people sleep on the streets. But do you know the reason why they sleep on the streets even when many do have their own place whether it's rented or belonging to their parents ? There are hundreds if not thousands at each big cities every night. Most are transient and are fully employed or have some means to support themselves. As to you worried about them in your neighbourhood, then please ask your daughters don't stay out so late at night.

I agree they still adopting the same policy must not above $1500 income from the two applicant. HOW TO Qualify????????????????????

$500 fine

Do something as Singaporeans. Don't leave everything to Govt.

@@coshinc5941 cannot. Too many laws. Deport

For Singaporeans, the government does a lot to help already. There's no "good reason" for a Singaporean to sleep on the streets. But for foreigners, I'm not sure, I'm guessing it's a much different story.

The foreign worker part in this video says they get up at 1am but obviously our public transport doesn't go 24hrs so if they sleep at their dorms who knows what time they have to leave to get here and a cab is out of the qtn. So they stay near workplace to sleep before their overnight shift starts. They want more sleep time vs comfort of sleepin at dorm. Construction site I'm not sure if it's cost effective to always build a dorm beside a site so maybe that's why they don't do it and sometimes because work location the workers stay far. As for locals, help is always given when you ask from the authorities.

then pay la! everything want free why not you give me.

Those already spend their CPF

Exactly. Nobody wish stranger to come and disturb.

Very true.

Sometimes people just wish to be alone. Don't get the government people coming around and disturb.

Garmen lj one

How you know? The govt.if and when they give you shelter its always temporary

Sorry

also do you think JUNTA PAP care so damn WAYANG

Before you go SJW, you better ask about the backgrounds of those rough sleepers. Most are toxic men with personality or mental disorders. You have misplaced compassion.

They live at sixth ave. Very rich one. Must be minister neighbour.

😂😂😂

There are plenty of such landlords!! Not surprising

If the gov is only helping themselves then we could be living in worse conditions. Worse then our neighbours don't even have to look far. You don't see the needy people going to the local cc and asking for necessities and subsidies. If you're Singaporean can always write to the mp your plight and they will answer in some way. There really isn't a lot of homeless people in Singapore compared to other countries. I say this because I have relatives from other countries and Singapore is really better. Even UK with their free health care and benefits have homeless people.

@@laylaminrir yes your right but some homeless people got loan problem and housing problems because my colleague stay rental flat pub using pay as you use have to top up

Before you go SJW, you better ask about the backgrounds of those rough sleepers. Most are toxic men with personality or mental disorders. You have misplaced compassion.

@@scbchong6964 just because your having a good life have no clue what those people going through even you don't help them don't criticise them 👍

@@ResidentNotEvil5 Why keep pointing finger and blaming govt? Isn't it the fault of those who choose to sleep rough? Always govt fault and never your own fault because of the consequences of your actions or inaction?

Spot on!!

Deport them if caught saving money sleeping on the roads

The problem is the pride and ego and stubborness of the rough-sleepers. But notice how safe and comfortable is singapore.

Must turning to LA homeless

Then silence is golden.

If you are local.

Social anxiety

Not true.

Before you go SJW, you better ask about the backgrounds of those rough sleepers. Most are toxic men with personality or mental disorders. You have misplaced compassion.

@@scbchong6964 and I too have a mental disorder. So what is your point?

Kpo

What's the problem here? Like if you want to compare, you are the one who wants to be critical of just an obeversation, Sounds pretty nosey to me.

Did you watch the whole video? He featured Singaporeans too.

When you bring foreign workers here they become part of your social construct.

Lol Can't agree more There should be a social experiment done on locals having no accommodation Instead of mere reporting!! Sounds condescending!!

It's THE BIG STORY !!!!!

jealous ah

Yeap Annie she is

@@rgravi Well I don't see any wrong for a woman to be envious of other women