GA Study Tour 2016

Our afternoon visit was to the Housing Department Board to see how 80% of Singaporean's are housed. The HDB was set up in 1960 to deal with the impending housing crisis and slum clearances. Planned new towns house provide affordable housing for 3.8 million people. Of these 95% own their own home which is paid out of a pensiob fund in which they and their employers pay into. We got to see inside some show flats and then later a group of us made our own way to Punggol Eco New town to see how Sustainable it really was.Leia mais