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The HDB Hub at Toa Payoh, headquarters of the Housing & Development Board of Singapore. HDB flats in Jurong West. The Housing & Development Board (HDB; often referred to as the Housing Board), is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development responsible for the public housing in Singapore.
Hougang Bus Depot is an SBS Transit West District bus depot located in Hougang, Singapore. As of November 2014, the total fleet is 600 buses. Hougang Bus Depot started operations in 1983 when the north-east which is Hougang and Serangoon was developed and previously, all operations had been on Ang Mo Kio Bus Depot and Bedok Bus Depot respectively.
This branch was later incorporated into the NSL. [14] The station will also be the terminus of the JRL, with the adjacent station being Choa Chu Kang West station. [51] The NSL station has a "pitched" roof design shaped like an inverted "V", [52] [53] and brick walls that match the surrounding HDB blocks. [54]
The S&CC operating grant is given by the Ministry of National Development (MND) to support the town council with their operating needs. The grant is disbursed annually, [1] and is allocated based on the number and type of HDB flats in the town. Smaller HDB flats are given a bigger grant than larger ones. No grant is given for 5-room flats. [19]
The HDB Hub opened on 10 June 2002 as the headquarters of the Housing and Development Board, with all public service counters in the board's former headquarters in Bukit Merah being closed on 8 June. [1] The building cost $380 million to complete. [2] A showroom, named Habitat Forum, was launched in the hub on 24 October 2002. [3]
HDB residences in Bishan town. Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built, and managed by the government of Singapore.Starting in the 1930s, the country's first public housing was built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in a similar fashion to contemporaneous British public housing projects, and housing for the resettlement of squatters was built from the late 1950s.
The most important category of Singapore initialisms are those for government departments and public institutions. Among the earliest examples are PUB ("Public Utilities Board") and HDB ("Housing Development Board"). Abbreviations such as these were especially important in the past when most Singaporeans were not educated in English, and their ...
In 1965, the HDB started work on its first new town, Toa Payoh. Located about 5–8 km (3.1–5.0 miles) from the city centre, the new town contained a town centre with amenities such as shops and public transport infrastructure, along with several industrial areas to provide jobs to its residents. [ 3 ]