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HDB sorry after single mum gets keys to ‘horror’ rental
Facebook user Felicia Ong showed photos of the dilapidated rental flat, where the toilet had a broken door and no light bulb. PHOTO: FACEBOOK/FELICIA ONG
It says keys were issued before sprucing up of the Marsiling flat and issues her a replacement home
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After paying $438.30 in rent and deposit for temporary accommodation in a Housing Board rental flat, a single mother was aghast when she opened the flat s door and saw its condition.
Facebook user Felicia Ong recounted the incident on her social media page last Thursday.
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HDB apologises for allocating poorly maintained rental flat to single mother
HDB has apologised for allocating a poorly maintained public rental flat to a single mother after her Facebook post with photos of the dilapidated flat went viral. (Photo: Facebook/Felicia Ong)
16 Apr 2021 01:40PM) Share this content
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SINGAPORE: The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has apologised for allocating a poorly maintained public rental flat to a single mother after her Facebook post with photos of the dilapidated flat went viral.
“We are aware of an online post showing a poorly maintained HDB rental flat allocated to a rental tenant,” HDB said on Facebook on Friday (Apr 16).
April 16, 2021
Facebook/Felicia Ong
Unemployed, worried about potential cancer diagnosis and caring for her 16-month-old baby, single mum Felicia Ong thought her luck would finally turn around when she received the keys to a rental HDB flat in Marsiling on Thursday (April 15).
What greeted her when she stepped through the door, however, left her horrified. It looked like a haunted house, she recounted in a Facebook post that night. The post, now removed, went viral overnight with over 1,000 shares.
She shared photos of exposed wires, cracked floor tiles, a mouldy sink as well as dirt everywhere in the unit.
According to Ong, the toilet had a broken door and there was barely any space for her to shower her infant.
A woman in Singapore took to Facebook to appeal for a new rental flat after she found hers in a state of disrepair.
According to her Facebook post on April 15, Felicia Ong explained that she had been waiting for a rental flat for 18 months, before she finally got the keys to the flat in Marsiling.
According to Ong, the rental flat that had been allocated to her looked like a haunted house .
Background
A single mother with a 16-month-old baby, Ong wrote that she had lost her job in January 2021.
She has not experienced much luck in her subsequent job search.