In 2011, housing was a big concern for Singaporeans and the government mobilised all its resources to tackle the problem, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in Parliament yesterday during the debate on the President’s Address.
“In the last three years, we have built two Clementi new towns worth of HDB flats - 52,000 flats. We have almost doubled the subsidies for the flats, which have been disbursed so as to make the flats more affordable. The situation is now under control,” he said.