Debated in Parliament on 18 May 2018.
Mr Patrick Tay Teck Guan asked the Minister for National Development (a) what is the current number of subsidised and non-subsidised rental flats in Singapore; (b) what is the distribution in terms of 1-room, 2-room, 3-room and 4-room and above flats; (c) how many Singaporeans are currently living in subsidised rental flats; and (d) what is the gender/race/age profile of those living in subsidised rental flats.
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) currently manages about 60,600 subsidised rental flats under three schemes:
(a) The Public Rental Scheme, for Singapore Citizen (SC) households which have no other housing options or family support;
(b) Interim Rental Housing, for SC families which are in financial hardship and require urgent temporary accommodation; and
(c) The Parenthood Provisional Housing Scheme (PPHS), mainly for first-timer families which are awaiting the completion of their new flats.
HDB does not rent out non-subsidised flats.
The distribution of subsidised rental flats by flat type is in Table 1, and the details requested about the households living in these flats are in Tables 2 to 4.
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