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Catch 22 in Singapore: He can’t do this, he can’t do that, so they sleep on their lorry.
He cannot buy a new flat with his non-citizen spouse as he is not a first-time applicant for a subsidised flat.
He can buy a resale flat from the open market, but not on his salary.
He does not qualify for an HDB rental flat as his total household income a month exceeds $1,500 and his wife is not a citizen.
He can rent a room but that would cost $800, but that leaves him with little to spend, especially when the child is born.
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12 March 2016
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‘I just want a roof for my baby’: Lorry couple stress say they don’t need money aid http://goo.gl/qrn6ml
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All lorry couple want is home for baby http://str.sg/ZF8L
Since news of his plight broke, deliveryman Ong Poh Hwa, 44, and his pregnant wife have received a flurry of visitors at Changi Beach, where they park the lorry they call home.
Thursday night’s visitors included Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) officers, who told The Straits Times they were there to “better understand his current situation”.
Mr Ong’s story of how he and his pregnant Vietnamese wife live in the lorry he drives for work appeared in Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao on Wednesday.
The couple get up at 3.30am to start his delivery job, then park the lorry at night at Changi Beach, where they use the public toilets to wash up and do their laundry. They then go to sleep on sheets of cardboard in the back of the open vehicle.
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While offers of help have flooded in, Mr Ong said he did not need more money.
“We have enough to get by daily. We also have nowhere to keep donations,” he said.
His wife, now 18 weeks pregnant, is finding it harder to climb up and down the vehicle. “If it was just the two of us, it’s okay. But I really want a home for the baby.”
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/housing/all-lorry-couple-want-is-home-for-baby
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The Straits TimesDelivery man and pregnant wife happy as they ‘have each other’, despite living in lorry http://str.sg/ZFgB
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