Editing Housing and Development Board (section)

===1990s to present===
In a bid to encourage younger people to continue living in older public housing estates, the HDB announced a large-scale upgrading scheme for those estates in 1989.<ref name=":2"/> Known as the [[Main Upgrading Programme]],<ref name=":3"/> it attempted to improve these estates by adding new facilities to these estates, improved fittings in flats and varying the looks of the housing blocks in different precincts. In addition, the HDB initiated a redevelopment programme, the [[Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme]] (SERS) in 1995, in which selected housing blocks were razed and their residents compensated. SERS carried out renewal schemes in town centres in several older estates in the late 1990s. There have been a total of 81 SERS sites as of 2018.<ref name=":2"/>

Along with the upgrading schemes, the HDB introduced several new housing schemes in the 1990s. These included the Design and Build and Design Plus schemes, with flats designed in collaboration with private architects and built to a higher standard than other flats, and executive condominiums, with amenities similar to private housing.<ref name=":2"/> Further schemes were introduced in the 2000s, such as Build-to-Order, in which construction of flats began only after applicants had applied for them,<ref>{{cite news |last=Chua |first=Chelsea |date=22 March 2001 |title=Get ready for the where-when-what flats |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20010322-1.2.6 |work=[[Today (Singapore newspaper)|Today]] |location=Singapore |access-date=12 June 2021 |via=NewspaperSG |page=1 |archive-date=12 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612035842/https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20010322-1.2.6 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Design, Build and Sell Scheme]], in which the flats were developed and sold by private developers.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Generalova |first1=Elena |last2=Generalov |first2=Viktor |title=Social Issues: Designing High-Rise Housing: The Singapore Experience |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24192834 |journal=CTBUH Journal |date=2014 |issue=4 |pages=40–45 |doi= |jstor=24192834 |access-date=12 June 2021 |archive-date=12 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612035845/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24192834 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Nevertheless, the HDB was unable to adapt to the changes in Singapore's housing market fast enough in the early 2000s. To determine and redefine its position in the housing market, the HDB was reorganised, transferring the provision of flat loans to private banks,<ref>{{cite news |last=Ng |first=Boon Yian |date=28 January 2003 |title=HDB at crossroads |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20030128-1.2.2 |work=[[Today (Singapore newspaper)|Today]] |location=Singapore |access-date=18 June 2021 |via=NewspaperSG |page=1 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205722/https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20030128-1.2.2 |url-status=live }}</ref> and corporatising its Building and Development Division to form a new subsidiary, HDB Corp.<ref>{{cite news |last=Paulo |first=Derrick A |date=1 July 2003 |title=HDB record payout |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20030701-1.2.11.1 |work=Today |location=Singapore |access-date=12 June 2021 |via=NewspaperSG |page=1 |archive-date=12 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612035842/https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/today20030701-1.2.11.1 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The HDB increased efforts to engage residents in its provision of public housing in the 2000s. These efforts included public consultation schemes and the [[Neighbourhood Renewal Programme]], in which facilities within multiple adjacent precincts were improved or upgraded, and residents were able to provide feedback on the planned improvements. Efforts to foster more extensive resident participation were made in 2013 with the Building Our Neighbourhood Dreams! project, in which residents could propose neighbourhood improvements instead of just providing feedback, but the initial projects were not well received.<ref name=":4"/>

The HDB began installation of [[solar panels]] on public housing blocks and in its properties in the 2010s. In 2014, together with the [[Economic Development Board]], it initiated the SolarNova programme to handle solar panel installation on government properties and buildings.<ref name=":6"/>