Home Improvement Programme (HIP)
The HIP will introduce useful flat improvements and items that are necessary for public health, safety or technical reasons, while addressing common maintenance problems in ageing flats, such as spalling concrete and ceiling leaks. About 300,000 flats, built in 1986 or before that have not undergone the MUP, will be eligible for the HIP.
The programme comprises two components - Optional Improvements and Essential Improvements. Optional Improvements are items that residents are likely to value, such as toilet upgrading and replacement of entrance door and refuse chute hopper.
Residents will be allowed to opt out of Optional Improvements with a corresponding reduction in co-payment. (In the case of toilet upgrading, the toilet must pass the water test for leaks if the lessee wishes to opt out of the item, to prevent ceiling leaks for the unit below.)
Essential Improvements are those that are deemed necessary for public health, safety or technical reasons, such as the repair of spalling concrete and replacement of waste pipes and pipe sockets ('bamboo pole holders'). These items will be fully funded by the Government if the HIP is polled successfully.
Neighbourhood Renewal Programme (NRP)
The NRP focuses on precinct- and block-level improvements and will be carried out on a larger scale, across two or more contiguous precincts.
This will ensure that facilities provided in adjoining precincts complement rather than duplicate one another, and allow pooling of resources to provide items that are otherwise too costly to build.
Under the NRP, residents will be invited to more actively provide feedback and views on the facilities to be built. About 200,000 flats, built in 1989 or before that have not undergone the MUP, Interim Upgrading Programme (IUP) or IUP Plus, will be eligible for the NRP.
Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP)
HDB is committed to completing the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP) by 2014, for all eligible HDB blocks that do not have lifts stopping on every floor. Since LUP was introduced in 2001, around 3,600 HDB blocks, or about 70 per cent of the total number of eligible bocks, have been offered lift upgrading. The remaining eligible blocks will be offered LUP within the next few years and will be completed by 2014.