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Changes to competitive land bidding for places of worship can be considered for car ownership
The move to let religious groups ballot for land, rather than outbid each other, is the latest example of measures to reduce the more extreme effects of a competitive bidding system on Singapore society
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Some have asked whether some COEs can be set aside for those with pressing private transport needs.
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As Singapore society becomes more sensitive to equity concerns, people are keenly feeling the hard edges of a hyper-competitive free market system.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the sale of state land via competitive tenders for commercial and private residential use. Even religious groups constructing places of worship had to take part in competitive bidding for land.
