“As the non-mature estates start to come of age and the lines between them and the mature estates blur, such distinctions are becoming less relevant,” he said at a government engagement session.
“But it is not easy to reach a consensus on how we define whose needs are more urgent, as evident from the direct tensions observed from the suggestions we have received,” he added. “So why do some first-timers still meet with unsuccessful ballots?… Largely, it is because couples are applying to mature estates or to sale of balance flats exercises, where the application rates are very high.”
He said that this is already done where feasible, since construction tenders are called before the project is launched to the public. One suggestion was to restrict HDB flats only to owners who occupy the units themselves and ban flats from being used for investment, or for private property owners to also own an HDB flat.
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