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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.
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]
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 ...
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.
Build to order (BTO) is a real estate development scheme enacted by the Housing and Development Board (HDB), a statutory board responsible for Singapore's public housing. First introduced in 2001, it was a flat allocation system that offered flexibility in timing and location for owners buying new public housing in the country.
Virtual Singapore is a 3D digital model of Singapore that uses real-time and topographical data. It is a digital twin of the city-state , and the first digital twin of a country. Virtual Singapore is co-led by the National Research Foundation, the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and the Government Technology Agency .
The elevated track infrastructure of the East West MRT line was developed as the existing public housing blocks were being built in the 1980s. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] The amenities were built in a contiguous building complex , which gives commuters direct access between Boon Lay MRT station , Boon Lay Bus Interchange , The Centris condominium and Jurong ...
Toa Payoh serves the North South line (NSL) and is between the Braddell and Novena stations. The official station code is NS19. [33] When it opened, it had the station code of N6 [34] before being changed to its current station code in August 2001 as a part of a system-wide campaign to cater to the expanding MRT System.