Singaporean Prime Minister Lee in his 2023 National Day Rally (the one hour English version) spoke much in detail about public housing ownership with its emphasis on being fair and maintaining the social mix. The clarity of reasoning behind the role of public housing in Singapore as a bedrock of the social contract was a master class in policy communication- GIS Maps, Framework level thinking and the economics of the HDB.

The rally speech brought me back to this book which articulates the origins of mass public housing.