When the Housing Board started in 1960, the aim was to encourage home ownership to create social cohesion and lay the groundwork for the country's long-term stability.
To fulfil that mission in the 1960s, the agency had to solve a housing shortage and encourage people more used to kampungs to take up residence in unfamiliar high-rise blocks.
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