Community gardens, murals among ground-up projects to liven up HDB towns, public spaces via Lively Places Fund
Up to $5,000 is available for smaller sized, short-term movement strategies or tasks to bond neighbours in HDB neighbourhoods. Instances include block parties, an anti-littering project, and a local recycling day.
The structure fund rises to $20,000 for jobs with an execution duration of greater than six months, including turning void decks right into area coffee shops.
To infuse delight and vibrancy right into Singapore’s public spots and foster more powerful connections, the Lively Places Fund provides approximately $20,000 in financing to uphold community-driven placemaking assignments.
A shared initiative by the Housing Board (HDB) and Urban Redevelopment Authority, the fund intends to urge locals, designers and artists to start tasks that stimulate public places in HDB estates and across the nation to bring many people closely and create friendly and lively neighbourhoods.
In a LinkedIn article on March 15, Minister of State for Trade and Industry and National Development, Alvin Tan, explained the Lively Places Fund as “a wonderful way for you to make your neighbourhood a better place”.
“If you have a dream for your property, don’t allow it stay just an idea. Appear and pitch it to us. The group is prepared to direct you and provide the resources to transform your vision into reality,” Tan wrote.
For campaigns that will involve a physical makeover of existing public areas and will occupy to six months to execute, a structure fund of approximately $5,000 is readily available. These might include neighborhood arts projects and temporary pop-up installations.
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Throughout the years, campaigns that have actually resurrected with the fund include community gardens on rooftop patio, landscapes that assist senior citizens with dementia find their way, and space decks became “community living-room” for everybody to love, he added.
This year, the Lively Places Challenge focuses on not-for-profit pitches that can allow senior citizens to age well, encourage environmental sustainability via environment-friendly efforts, strengthen bonds between neighbours and cultivate a neighborhood spirit amongst citizens, or advertise positive social standards and neighborhood possession.
He also distributed photos from a workshop conducted at Temasek Shophouse he had actually gone to as component of the HDB Lively Places Challenge 2026, alongside HDB team and residents that are joining the challenge. Enrollment has closed for the current edition.
All proposals are to be situated within typical rooms, such as void decks, precinct green and roofing yards, of HDB projects in towns and estates consisting of Bidadari, Clementi, Pasir Ris, Tengah and Woodlands.
