3-million free houses have been handed over in the past 2 decades and the waiting list is longer than it was at the beginning of this process because of huge demographic shifts towards urban areas.  This trend will continue.  Our policy is clear:  in short, government's role is to make housing more affordable to poor people through various forms of subsidy in different categories.  And to densify urban areas.  But this also means people will have to contribute something towards their housing.