What The Role Is The Strategic Planning and Research Group (SPRG) was set up in Nov 2023 with the mission of gearing HDB up to address future challenges, in light of the increasingly rapid shifts in HDB's operating environment and growing complexity of issues. To that end, SPRG performs horizon-scanning and foresight work to identify longer-term issues that may affect the public housing landscape, and spearheads the development of cross-cutting strategies to respond to these issues. The Strategic Policy Planning Section (SPOPS) in SPRG takes a centralised and directive role in driving emerging, long-range and cross-cutting issues. The section studies gaps, translates priorities into strategies, develops broad policy thinking, defines clear outcomes/deliverables for each strategy, identifies/commissions Groups/Workstreams to develop supporting policies and programmes, and incubates pilot initiatives. These issues are multi-faceted spanning diverse domains such as housing narrative, flat...