Public Towns and Estates
The Housing and Development Board presently built her approximately 11,000 public housing blocks of flats into 21 New Towns, as well as consolidates the remaining relatively older flats into towns equivalent to a new town, such as Bukit Merah, Geylang, and the city area.
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