The Workers’ Party says the People's Action Party has taken its housing paper out of context, while the PAP says the WP should acknowledge that its position was wrong.
SINGAPORE: A working paper by the Workers' Party on Singapore's housing policy, published in 2019, was the subject of debate in Parliament on Friday .
Since the post was published, both sides have gone back and forth on the issue on social media platforms as well as the Straits Times forum. “If we had ... heeded advice - since they don’t want to call it a proposal - and if we had done so and cut back on the building of new flats and their subsequent proposal to allow singles under the age of 35 to buy new flats, we would be faced with a much bigger supply-demand imbalance today,” Mr Wong added.
“On this note, of course, I have to, then, come to the irresistible conclusion that it is a convenient distraction because if indeed the point that was raised in the housing paper was critical, then the PAP would have raised it last year when the WP called for more HDB housing for singles,” he added.
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