Each month, 131 tenants give up their flats while 382 people join the queue.
In June, 4,387 were on the waiting list. They wait, on average, 11/2 years for a one-room flat and nine months for a two-room flat.
Who applies?
About 12,000 applied last year, but only 4,671 were eligible. Their household income was at most $1,500 a month.
Of those eligible, four in 10 were former flat owners who had no mortgage arrears or who were not divorced, suggesting some might not have been as needy as others.