Wednesday, April 12, 2006
He wants shorter home leases
WHEN Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC MP Charles Chong personally asked for his help in the Buangkok MRT station saga last year, Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim took leave from work to devote his full attention to the cause.
His job? To design a survey to verify the transport operators' claims that residents living in the Buangkok vicinity would not be willing to walk 400 metres to use the train. The survey's findings proved otherwise and played a major role in the station finally opening its doors in January.
Said the 38-year-old National University of Singapore (NUS) assistant professor, the first academic in the People's Action Party's (PAP) batch of 21 new faces to date: "I see it as a good development that we are a maturing society."
The programme director for NUS' Master of Science in Real Estate course is also a former valuer at the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore.
One of the areas he will be focusing on if elected, is to give Singaporeans more choices when buying homes. This, he believed, could be realistically achieved by providing shorter leases for housing flats. "Having leases shorter than 99 years will bring the price of homes down and ease the process of owning homes. I believe it will enhance the quality and well-being of the people."
On the community front, he's an active grassroots leader on several committees within the Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC. He is also the Young PAP chairman for the North-east district.
When asked for his one weakness, he said: "My friends often tell me I'm too kind. One of my agendas over the next few years is to still be kind but make sure that people don't take advantage of me." LEE U-WEN
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His job? To design a survey to verify the transport operators' claims that residents living in the Buangkok vicinity would not be willing to walk 400 metres to use the train. The survey's findings proved otherwise and played a major role in the station finally opening its doors in January.
Said the 38-year-old National University of Singapore (NUS) assistant professor, the first academic in the People's Action Party's (PAP) batch of 21 new faces to date: "I see it as a good development that we are a maturing society."
The programme director for NUS' Master of Science in Real Estate course is also a former valuer at the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore.
One of the areas he will be focusing on if elected, is to give Singaporeans more choices when buying homes. This, he believed, could be realistically achieved by providing shorter leases for housing flats. "Having leases shorter than 99 years will bring the price of homes down and ease the process of owning homes. I believe it will enhance the quality and well-being of the people."
On the community front, he's an active grassroots leader on several committees within the Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC. He is also the Young PAP chairman for the North-east district.
When asked for his one weakness, he said: "My friends often tell me I'm too kind. One of my agendas over the next few years is to still be kind but make sure that people don't take advantage of me." LEE U-WEN
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// posted by Shajahan @ 10:51 AM 