HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (Resettlements, units completed and HDB shops, 1975-77)

Mr Hwang Soo Jin asked the Minister for National Development and Communications, during the year 1977, (a) how many families were resettled by the Resettlement Department; (b) what was the number of members of such families; (c) how many families were moved into 1-room, 2-room, 3-room, 4-room and 5-room Housing and Development Board and Housing and Urban Development Company flats: (d) how many units of HDB and HUDC flats were completed; (e) how many HDB shops were given up; and (f) how many HDB shops were taken up; and if he will give the comparative figures for 1976 and 1975.

Mr Lim Kim San: (a) 8,049 families were resettled by the Resettlement Department in 1977, 7,203 in 1976 and 9,912 in 1975.

(b) The household size of such families ranged from 2 to 9 and averaged at 5.

(c) The following resettlement families were moved into HDB flats:- Year 1-Rm 2-Rm 3-Rm 4-Rm 5-Rm Total 1975 1,309 648 3,310 1,958 235 7,460 1976 687 496 2,620 1,375 267 5,445 1977 729 868 3,096 1,980 296 6,969

No case was resettled into HUDC flats.

(d) The total number of HDB flats completed in 1977 was 36,648 as compared to 27,507 in 1976 and 26,355 in 1975. The total number of HUDC flats completed in 1977 was 1,452 as compared to 234 in 1976.

(e) The number of HDB shops given up was 229 in 1977, 206 in 1976 and 147 in 1975.

(f) 790 HDB shops were taken up in 1977. It was 665 in 1976 and 552 in 1975.