By Nur Dianah Suhaimi

ONLY 200 out of around 5,300 HDB blocks built before 1990 will not be getting lifts that stop at every floor.

They do not qualify for the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP) because it would cost more than $30,000 per unit to install lifts in these blocks.

This is in spite of innovative and cost-effective solutions by the Housing and Development Board to bring costs down, Parliament heard yesterday.

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