Evaluate a Socially Sustainable Housing Management Strategy - Singapore

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Evaluate a Socially Sustainable Housing Management Strategy: Singapore

Evaluation

Overall, the housing management strategy used in Singapore is very effective, with most of the population using the public housing.

Limitations

The people do not get to own their own homes

Strain on government

Advantages

Creates nationalism

The population is generally content

Good Quality

Affordable

Future Changes

Restructure HDB pricing and resale scheme

Create more buffer in supply to make sure there are always enough unsold flats

Contemporary Challenges

Making sure the different ethnicities and income classes are living harmoniously

Meet the wishes of the public and provide more choices/variety for buyers

Keeping the cost low for everyone

Matching house demand

History of Public Housing

Home Ownership Scheme introduced in 1964

5. Promoting strong family ties and social intergration

4. Improving quality and variety

3. Financial security and retirement adequacy

2. Affordability for all

1. Create stability in the nation

In 1920s, bad living conditions made the British colonial government create the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT)

Replaced by Housing and Development Board (HDB) in 1960 to provide affordable housing for everyone

Over the next 23 years, 23,000 residential units were constructed by the SIT

The SIT became Singapore’s town planning authority

In colonial period, housing was concentrated in ethnic-based districts (enclaves)

Other housing consisted of kampungs, traditional village communities, with farmland (majority of people resided in), and large estates of rich Europeans and locals

Took the form of shophouses were many people lived in confined, dangerous and unsanitary spaces

General Information

Cited as a remarkable success

In 2010, HDB won the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour for “providing one of Asia's and the world's greenest, cleanest and most socially conscious housing programmes”.

Good quality housing that is affordable for many

About 82% of the people live in flats built by the Housing and Development Board (HDB)