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"The high-rise apartments — some with panoramic views of Singapore’s tropical
cityscape — are airy, light-filled and spacious enough to comfortably raise a
family. They are also public housing units, and for decades, were emphatically
affordable, giving Singapore an enviable rate of homeownership.
Now, however, at least a few of the apartments are being sold at a price that
would have been unthinkable not long ago: more than $1 million.
“I’m sad to see that — because public housing must equal affordability,” said
Liu Thai Ker, the urban planner who gets much of the credit for creating the
country’s widely lauded approach to housing its citizens.
Now 86, Mr. Liu is considered the architect of modern Singapore because of his
role overseeing the development of about half of the more than one million
apartments that make up public housing in the small and exceptionally
prosperous city-state of 5.6 million people."
Via
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