SSS in the News | HDB should apply its own occupancy rules to rental housing
The Straits Times
The Housing Board (HDB) recently announced new occupancy caps for flats rented out on the open market, bringing down the maximum number of persons who may live in four-room and larger flats from nine to six, in line with the limit for three-room flats. An overcrowded home also affects social participation as it means that families are unable to have many visitors. In This Is What Inequality Looks Like, a recent book by sociologist Teo You Yenn, she points out that older children prefer to stay out with their friends or hang out at public places when the home environment is poor.
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