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The HDB also continued the SIT's efforts in building emergency flats in Tiong Bahru, which were mostly used to rehouse people displaced by the Bukit Ho Swee fire in May 1961. After the fire, the HDB focused its efforts on Bukit Ho Swee's redevelopment, rapidly designing and constructing a public housing estate on the fire's site, with people ...
The Home Improvement Programme (HIP) (Chinese: 家居改进计划; pinyin: jiā jū gǎi jìn jì huá; Malay: Program Peningkatan Rumah) was introduced by the Housing Development Board (HDB) in August 2007, during Singapore's National Day Rally. [2] It replaced the earlier Main Upgrading Programme (MUP), which operated from 1990 to 2007. [2]
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 company provided housing finance to individuals and corporations for purchase/construction of residential houses. [13] [17] The type of loans offered by company included loans for purchase and construction of a residential units, purchase of land, home improvement loans, home extension loans, non-residential premise loans for professionals and loan against property and repayment options ...
In 2011, Singapore was ranked first in green building policies, before advanced cities like Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul, in a study conducted by Solidiance on Asia-Pacific cities. [ 13 ] In December 2011, there are more than 940 green building projects, translating to a gross floor area of about 300 million ft2, or 12% of Singapore's total gross ...
Pages in category "Insurance companies of Singapore" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Bukit Ho Swee fire [a] was a conflagration that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore on 25 May 1961. This fire resulted in 4 deaths and injured another 54. It also destroyed more than 2,800 houses around the Bukit Ho Swee area, leaving around 16,000 people homeless. The cause of this conflagration was never ...
Natura Loft DBSS flats at Bishan. Design, Build and Sell Scheme (abbreviation: DBSS) was introduced by the Housing and Development Board in 2005. Flats built under the scheme were meant for public housing and developed by private developers.