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With HDB’s additional $550 million budget under its Main Upgrading, Interim Upgrading and Lift Upgrading programmes, around 54,000 flat owners in Pasir Ris, Hougang and Tampines can expect new amenities in their neighbourhoods, including new car porches, covered linkways and children's playgrounds.
Residents could also get flat improvements like new windows and grills, and new waterproofing for bathroom floors.
According to the government, no target completion date has been set for the works, but it has already set aside an additional $550 million funding for the three HDB towns under the upgrading programmes.
Mr. Teo Chee Hean, deputy prime minister and advisor to Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC grassroots organisation, said the government would continue to develop housing estates as long as it had the financial resources.
The three HDB estates are mature towns developed in the 1980s and early 1990s. Along with the recently established towns of Punggol and Sengkang, they house 197,100 flats or about 22 percent of the overall HDB flats across the country. The government had already spent nearly $540 million to improve the amenities in over 67,000 flats in the three towns.
Out of the additional $550 million funding, $107 million will go to Pasir Ris, $180 million to Hougang and $263 million to Tampines.
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