Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme
The Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme, or SERS for short, is an urban redevelopment strategy employed by the Housing and Development Board in Singapore in maintaining and upgrading public housing flats in older estates in the city. Launched in August 1995, it involves a small selection of specific precincts in older estates which undergo demolition and redevelopment, as opposed to upgrading of existing flats via the Main Upgrading and Interim Upgrading Programmes.
All residents displaced by the redevelopment works are offered a new 99-year lease in new flats constructed nearby. These residents have the priviledge to select their units prior to public release of the remaining units, are compensated financially, enjoy subsidised prices for their new flats, as well as other perks, such as the being able to purchase flats in other locations under the same benefits offered for all affecting residents who purchase the offered replacement units.
To date, 56 SERS sites have been announced, of which 34 were completed.