Welcome

This is a private website.

We are a group of concerned friends who love Singapore and love the estates in which we live. While we welcome progress, we also cherish the old and the familiar.

Our cityscape has improved enormously in the past decades thanks to the vision of Singaporeans and its leaders.

Our communities now need to forge together in neighbourliness and an awareness that for our roots to grow deeper, and for our children to see Singapore as home, we need to preserve our home-scape.

The prevalent spate of en bloc attempts in condo estates around Singapore has impacted us in a way which is counter productive to our nesting instincts and to our identity as a gracious society. We need to share our experiences to get us though this nightmare. We hope that our daily lives can be free from the constant worries of losing our homes to those who see home as a mere financial tool for wealth.

Renewing our estates with upgrading and an awareness of the need to maintain bonds with our neighbours is why we have called this site HOPE for Stayers. It is the Stayers who will ultimately give Singapore the character it needs as it evolves into a truly prosperous nation.

Mission

HOPE4Stayers is an informal group of like-minded Subsidiary Proprietors (SPs) in condominiums in Singapore, providing a forum to:

1. Share with selected invited SPs of some estates our en bloc experiences and let each other know what is happening in our respective condos;
    
2. Disseminate information on the en bloc process, current legislation and other related policies to enlighten, educate and provide advice to SPs who are facing en bloc attempts in their condos and who are not aware of what the laws provide for;
    
3. Provide a morale booster for Stayers to deal with the dreadful hammer of the enbloc syndrome.
   
   To have to fight to keep one's home is a terrible thing, almost akin to the experience of war. We feel uncertainty, despair and a failed sense of connection to the things we hold dear. 
   
   To our very great dismay the new reality for us Stayers is a severe new order of shorter tenure of our properties than we ever dreamed. We may have bought freehold apartments, or 999 year or even 99 year residences. But the real order of our generation and the generations of those to come is a tenure of 10 - 30 years. Because that is how long we may effectively be able to hold on to our treasured homes before the repeated strife of en bloc attempts is successful and casts us, unwillingly, out of our precious homes.
   
   We seek the same permanence and promise for the future as those who live in landed homes. After all, homes should not be a commodity for barter.