The Home Improvement Programme (HIP) helps you, the flat owners, to deal with common maintenance problems related to ageing flats, such as spalling concrete and ceiling leaks, in a systematic and comprehensive manner.
Flats built up to 1986 and which have not undergone the
Main Upgrading Programme (MUP) are eligible for HIP.
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The HIP works are categorised into Essential and Optional Improvements.
Essential Improvements
These are improvements considered necessary for public health, safety or technical reasons. They are compulsory if HIP is polled successfully.
Essential Improvements include:
- Replacement of waste pipes
- Repair of spalling concrete
- Repair of structural cracks
- Replacement of pipe sockets
- Upgrading of electrical supply
Optional Improvements
Optional Improvements include:
- Upgrading of toilets/bathrooms
- Replacement of entrance door
- Replacement of grille gate
- Replacement of refuse chute hopper
You may opt out of any or all of these improvements with a corresponding reduction in co-payment. However, to opt out of toilet upgrading, the toilets must pass a water test for leaks. This is to prevent ceiling leaks at the flat below.
If you opt out of any of the Optional Improvements, you need not pay your share of these items.
The examples below show sections of an HDB flat before and after HIP works are carried out.
The construction period for a typical precinct comprising 8 - 10 blocks will take about 1.5 - 2 years. Works in each flat will take 10 days or less, depending on the improvements chosen.
HIP will proceed only if 75% or more of a block’s eligible Singapore citizen households have voted in favour of HIP at the poll.
Please click to view
online demo on polling for HIP. You may also wish to view the
online demo on polling for both HIP and LUP, if your block is also selected for the Lift Upgrading Programme.
As in other upgrading programmes, Singapore Permanent Resident (SPR) households are not eligible to poll.
In each HIP precinct, a Working Committee will be formed to oversee the project. The Committee:
- Is chaired by the Adviser to the Grassroots Organisation;
- Comprises representatives from the residents, grassroots leaders, and officials from HDB and the Town Council.