But a lot of home buyers today would frown on what seems to be the public stairwell adjacent to their living room wall that could be pretty noisy in today’s denser flats. We don’t know how big this 2-room flat is, but the concept of a 2-room unit with a verandah would raise some eyebrows today. Also interesting is the heavily enclosed kitchen – quite different from the open kitchen concepts in today’s BTO flats. Notice that there’s actual yard space, which you’d never find in HDB flats today. This is a 3-room flat from Redhill Close. That aside, here are some HDB floor plans from the days of SIT: To our knowledge, these are the best preserved and least modified (even indoors) SIT-era flats. But if you want to see the inside of an SIT flat, your best bet is to try and get inside a flat in the Tiong Bahru conserved blocks. We can’t even show you many HDB floor plans, because many have been lost to time. It was set up by the then British colonial government, to build affordable housing in Singapore. The early days of the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT)īefore HDB, there was SIT. We see it quite often on the faces of older Singaporeans: whenever someone is buying their second flat after many decades, they say things like “ Wow, is this a condo or an HDB flat?”, or “ Huh? This is a 4-room flat? So small?” Here’s a look at how things have transformed: From the days of HDB terrace houses to today’s tiny flats, the concept of an HDB property has changed over the years.
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