PRB has not evicted anyone from any of their flats during the COVID-19 period - Patrick Veu

Public Rental Board Acting General Manager, Patrick Veu confirms that no one has been evicted from any of their flats during the COVID-19 period, however people who were earning more than $16,500 and have lost their jobs or are on reduced hours have been reconsidered to stay in their flats.

Veu says families whose annual income is more than $16,500 are not eligible for PRB flats.

He says they have issued eviction notices but the actual process of getting people to move out of the flats because they are facing financial difficulties has not been done.

Veu says they have slowed down this process.

He says they are trying to identify those who are still earning more than $16,500 to serve them with notices as they are not eligible to live in these flats.

Meanwhile, the Minister for Local Government and Housing Premila Kumar says 112 PRB tenants have been served with eviction notices because they do not qualify to live in those flats. Kumar says the flats are given to families on subsidized rates, which simply means that they try and save money and move out when they have enough savings.

PRB has 24 rental estates comprising 1,753 rental flats.