The Strategic Planning and Research Group (SPRG) was set up in Nov 2023 with the mission of gearing HDB up to address future challenges, in light of the increasingly rapid shifts in HDB’s operating environment and growing complexity of issues. To that end, SPRG performs horizon-scanning and foresight work to identify longer-term issues that may affect the public housing landscape, and spearheads the development of cross-cutting strategies to respond to these issues. The Strategic Projects Planning Section (SPRPS) in SPRG conceptualises and incubates new programmes for HDB’s implementation, to translate broad strategies into concrete action. The team’s current focus is to develop the plans for the new Voluntary Early Redevelopment Scheme (VERS), which will be HDB’s next major undertaking in the coming decades. Min(ND) has publicly shared that the broad framework for VERS will be developed in the current term of Government, with a few selected sites potentiall...