PEPS BUDGET 2018 WISHLIST:

Step up provision and promotion of rental housing as the preferred housing mode

Rental housing provides immediate access and low barriers of entry to housing

Adopt rent-then-buy system to allow tenants to have longer period of time to build up their financial capacity and ultimately, own a house

Co-sharing of infrastructure costs

Utility companies should share in the infrastructure costs as an incentive to developers to build more affordable houses.

Centralise policy-making and delivery of affordable housing matters with a few agencies, to an extent where check-andbalance is in place

To promote administrative efficiency and economies of scale and consistent policy goals

Further streamline and simplify the application procedures to ensure orderly, systematic and just policies are in place, standardisation of the development application process in all states and local authorities in terms of forms used and processing times

More incentives for private developers who adopt build-thensell system and/or provide higher proportion of affordable housing units

Application for affordable housing projects should be simplified and expedited

Open sales of state land to developers at cheaper than prevailing market prices. Such sales can be made conditional on projects having a higher proportion of affordable housing units