MY HOME is in a block of three-room flats in Taman Jurong, along a common corridor.
Recently, there has been an increase in the number of foreign workers living in my block, as well as in surrounding blocks.
These foreign workers are not professionals; they are mostly males and live in groups. And they are destroying the ambience of the place and affecting security.
They leave their front door open most of the time and they disturb the adjacent families as they are very rowdy and talk loudly till past midnight. It is also not uncommon for them to blast their TV sets or radios.
They dirty the corridor by spitting, and clutter it by leaving their footwear all over the place. Many times, they also encroach onto the area in front of our door when they run out of space to put their footwear and bicycles.
They hang their dirty clothes along the corridor, and throw cigarette butts all over the place.
They also make a lot of noise when they get drunk.
As if that was not bad enough, they walk around half-naked, in and around the flats.
I do not understand how they could legally rent a flat and cram in eight to 10 people. Doesn't HDB have rules on the number of foreign workers that can live in a rented three-room flat?
There are many singles who are not yet 35 years old, and hence cannot buy an HDB flat to live near their parents. And yet these same flats are being rented out to foreign workers who are making a nuisance of themselves.
Is it not possible to designate whole HDB blocks for the housing of foreign workers, rather than have them live beside families in the same block?
I am not totally against foreign workers, as they contribute to Singapore's economy, but when they destroy the ambience and threaten the security of the block, I hope that measures could be put in place to make my block a safer and more conducive place to live in.
Huang Qiliang
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