So how then did it fare now based on 2017's stats? Here are the figures now
^HDB 2017 figure were based as of end March 2017, hence there is a slight underestimate *Data from HDB, URA and Singstats 2017 data |
As of 2017, this ratio has fallen to below 4. It shows housing supply in Singapore has increased (7.0%) at a much faster rate than our population (2.5%). I find this number ridiculous because it means for every housing unit, there are 3.96 people staying in it; the 296,700 foreign construction workers in Singapore will be heartened to know that four of them can comfortably stay in a 4 ......