Senior citizen who was left homeless after being released from prison finally gets rental flat

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Lim Kee Khoon who has been sleeping at the Henderson Hawker Centre will finally move into a rental flat with his brother

flat with his brother. Mr Lim’s plight went viral earlier this year after an ex-opposition party member shared his story on social media.

Mr Bowyer said that Mr Lim is uncomfortable living with strangers due to a past experience when he was forced to share a rental flat with a partially-disabled senior citizen and ended up unwillingly becoming the housemate’s caregiver. At 63, Mr Lim committed a crime and was sentenced to jail. He was recently released from prison at the age of 70 but had nowhere to go and nowhere to stay, according to Mr Bowyer.

The Housing Development Board later disputed Mr Bowyer’s claim that public agencies did not offer help to Mr Lim. Revealing that HDB has offered a rental flat for Mr Lim and his brother and that Mr Lim has been placed in a shelter as he waits to shift into the rental flat, HDB asserted:

 

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