Everyone deserves a home. But Singapore’s housing policies create hardship for single-parent families. HDB’s complicated rules favour married couples, leaving single parents scrambling with frequent house moves, financial drain, strained family relationships, emotional stress and long waits, just for a place to call their own.

This must change. To mark International Day of Families, we warmly invite single parents and their children to engage with others from single-parent families through this in-depth dialogue session. As a supporter, the session will allow you to learn about the difficulties single parents face, and find out how you can help.

Date: 17 May 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 7pm
Venue: AWARE Centre (5 Dover Crescent #01-22)
Light refreshments will be served
Childcare can be arranged – please email media@aware.org.sg with number of children and their ages, by 15 May
REGISTER HERE

Through continued engagement with policy-makers, and valuable conversations with the public, we hope to see an end to the policies that disadvantage single-parent families.

(This dialogue is not open to media. We welcome reporting on the points and issues raised, but no names and identities should be included. Representatives of the media will be required to identify themselves prior to the event, and no photos/videos are allowed without explicit consent.)

Read our report on single parents’ access to housing here and accompanying Annexes here.