Lee Kuan Yew's two-volume memoir provides great background and details on the strategy behind Singapore's famous "towns" of HDB flats. Housing for all Singapore citizens was one pillar of the PAP's success of driving the country from third world to first and building a cohesive and inclusive society. It's a great model with robust, documented, and actionable results. If it can happen in S'pore, it can happen in every city in the US.
Definitely. It's especially interesting that Singapore approached the question of housing from a specifically capitalist perspective instead of the far more common social democratic/democratic socialist approach. Just goes to show that the most important aspects of public housing aren't ideological but rather a true commitment to housing your people and the political will to make it happen.
Lee Kuan Yew's two-volume memoir provides great background and details on the strategy behind Singapore's famous "towns" of HDB flats. Housing for all Singapore citizens was one pillar of the PAP's success of driving the country from third world to first and building a cohesive and inclusive society. It's a great model with robust, documented, and actionable results. If it can happen in S'pore, it can happen in every city in the US.
Definitely. It's especially interesting that Singapore approached the question of housing from a specifically capitalist perspective instead of the far more common social democratic/democratic socialist approach. Just goes to show that the most important aspects of public housing aren't ideological but rather a true commitment to housing your people and the political will to make it happen.