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  2. Housing and Development Board - Wikipedia

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    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. Established in 1960 as a result of efforts in the late 1950s to set up an authority to take over the Singapore Improvement ...

  3. Public housing in Singapore - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Build to order (HDB) - Wikipedia

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    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 consists of a flat allocation system that offers flexibility in timing and location for owners buying new public housing residences in the country.

  5. Housing and Development Bank - Wikipedia

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    Net income. £E575 million (2015 [2]) Website. hdb-egy .com. The Housing and Development Bank ( Arabic: بنك التعمير والإسكان) is an Egyptian bank established in Cairo on June 30, 1979, originally as a state owned enterprise (SOE), with a mandate to alleviate housing shortages by narrowing the gap between the low supply and ...

  6. Main Upgrading Programme - Wikipedia

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    The programme was absorbed into Home Improvement Programme in 2007. The priority of HDB upgrading programme was linked to support by electoral wards, [1] [2] as stated by then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, "by linking the priority of upgrading to electoral support, we focus the minds of voters on the link between upgrading and the people whose ...

  7. HDB Hub - Wikipedia

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    HDB Hub is the headquarters of the Housing and Development Board.It is located on Lorong 6 Toa Payoh in Toa Payoh, Singapore next to Toa Payoh MRT station.. History. 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.

  8. New towns of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    The development of new towns within Singapore were in tandem with the construction of public housing in the country – managed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) under a 99-year lease. The majority of the residential housing developments in Singapore are publicly governed and developed, and home to approximately 80% of the population.

  9. Public housing - Wikipedia

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    Finally, a home that is located in neither an urbanizacion nor of a public housing development is said to be located in (and to be a part of) a barrio. In Puerto Rico, a barrio also has a second and very different meaning official meaning: the geographical area into which a municipios is divided for official administrative purposes.