Rental across is going down, not only Melosa. My friend rented out his 3 storey landed house at District 8 for only $6,000 recently while another one rented out her condo for $12,000 many years back. Can you see the big difference?
Yesterday pass by Lorong 24 at around 9pm, it was quite quiet, can't see any "girls" standing outside, only a handful of men. One very interesting thing that I saw was a man from the landed ppty (an association) kept spraying water from his house to outside to stop those "men" from standing around his landed, shouting at them to get away. This can tell how frustrated he is with all those people hanging around there. Govt should do something about it.
Actually, in a "normal" household, if we keep seeing strangers standing outside our house, we also feel frustrated. Nobody will like that.