No doubt the quality of living need not necessarily depend only
on the square footage of a particular flat.
Living standards also depend on the ability of a people to live
comfortably in a good environment, with modern comforts of home,
like laundry washing machines and dryers, rather than having to
hang out our laundry on bamboo poles to flap and dry in the sun.
Has HDB made provision for such living
quality? It also means having very good maintenance and ensuring
that flats do not have half the common corridor ways occupied by
pots of various sizes or even junks. Has HDB
effective control over this? It also means good designs and a
variation in designs, taking into consideration practical/optimal
usage as well as aesthetics in layouts and configuration of
units.Has HDB done this?
It is interesting that the HDB CEO made
comparison of the number of people living in a flat today as
compared with a generation or two ago. She seems to equates quality
of living also with the number of people in the unit(3.5 in 2010)
citing that there are lesser people in a unit now as compared with
before.(4.9 in 1980)
Whilst the government is trying very hard to increase the
population size of Singapore. Does it mean that to improve the
quality of HDB living, Singaporeans should
all maintain 3.5 or less number of people in a flat???
