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.