HDB TENANTS IN RENTAL ARREARS

Parliament of Singapore · 16 February 1989 · 7th Parliament

Official Report, 16 February 1989, Vol 52, Issue 9 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

Chin Harn TongLee Boon Yang
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Mr Chin Harn Tong asked the Minister for National Development (a) how many Housing and Development Board tenants are in arrears with their rental as at the latest convenient date; (b) for how much are they in arrears; and (c) if he will give the breakdown of arrears according to the size of flats.

Dr Lee Boon Yang: Mr Speaker, Sir, as at 31st December 1988, 11,467 out of a total of 66,298 (or 17.3%) of all tenants of HDB flats were in arrears with their rental. The arrears amount to a total of $2,560,369.

86.2% of the arrears cases involved tenants in 1-and 2-room flats. For a further breakdown of the arrears according to the size of flats, I have prepared a table (Cols. 713 - 714) which the Clerk of Parliament has circulated to Members. table - BREAKDOWN OF RENTAL ARREARS BY FLAT TYPE (Cols. 713 - 714)

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 16 February 1989. Republished on SGParliament.