Tuesday, December 16, 2008

17 Dec 2008 Urgent Request for Deadline Extension: Re: Review of Rental Renewal Rates for Existing Residents of Chip Bee Gardens

Dear Mr. Lim Swee Say -

We greatly appreciate your continued assistance on the overall appeal.

However, one area of immediate concern to the residents which we seek your urgent help in is with regard to the legal deadlines (18-20Dec) currently being imposed on those residents who's tenancy agreements have expired Oct, Nov and Dec'08.

We seek your urgent help to persuade Minister Lim Hng Kiang to permit the deadline extension till end Jan 2009 as requested in our email to him. Thus allowing the residents more time to engage with MTI and JTC on the subject appeal and petition.

If MTI does permit the extension, we would greatly appreciate if your office/MTI or JTC could advise us via email within next 24 hours. Otherwise, some of us may be forced to sign the new tenancy agreements at 76-80% increases or risk losing our homes. As an individual residents, we really do feel cornered in this matter and your urgent help in this matter is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Residents of Chip Bee Gardens
2008/12/16 Swee Say LIM <
SSLim@pmo.gov.sg>
Got your email. Thanks.

3 comments:

WeLoveChipBee said...

Very disturbing. JTC is acting like the bully in the playground. They are deliberately stalling with their non-response, and trapping us into a contract we do not want to sign.

WeLoveChipBee said...

JTC is behaving like a bully in the playground!!

Kian Wee Lim said...

At the time of hash global economic recession and financial turmoil, would you agree that rising the price of rental is an absolutely cruelty to humanity? Is it an outright brutality to ask for 60 - 90% increase in rental in this economic hardship?

Isn't JTC a government corporation? Why is there an inconsistency of a government corporation and the government in the effort to combat the economic recession and rising unemployment?

Where's the heart and empathy to average citizen who are struggling and deeply impact? Is it too much to ask to reduce our financial burden let alone not to increase our rental?

Mr. Cedric Foo, Chairman of JTC, please HELP!!!