New­ly ap­point­ed Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment, Dr David Lee, has ac­knowl­edged the over­whelm­ing de­mand for hous­ing, as he set­tled in­to his first day in of­fice, stat­ing that the vol­ume of re­quests al­ready re­ceived is out­pac­ing cur­rent ca­pac­i­ty.

While care­ful not to make pre­ma­ture de­c­la­ra­tions, Min­is­ter Lee hint­ed at the chal­lenges ahead as the min­istry seeks to align its de­liv­ery with the promis­es out­lined in the Gov­ern­ment’s hous­ing man­i­festo.

“From the time I was ap­point­ed, I've been swamped with re­quests,” Min­is­ter Lee re­vealed.

“I think present­ly, with­out get­ting too much in­volved or say­ing much, I think the de­mand out­strips the sup­ply,” he told Guardian Me­dia. “So, we would have to re­al­ly work with the hous­ing team to see how best we can de­liv­er on the promis­es that we would have said about hous­ing in our man­i­festo.”

Min­is­ter Lee al­so in­di­cat­ed that he will be look­ing at the pos­si­bil­i­ty of re­vi­tal­is­ing HDC prop­er­ties which res­i­dents in those com­mu­ni­ties have said have been ne­glect­ed.