SINGAPORE - When she had to move from a condominium unit to a two-room rental flat after a divorce three years ago, Ms Sophia Hassan, 36, (not her real name) was apprehensive.
She worried about feeling isolated and segregated from the community and feared that the environment would not be good for her children due to negative influences like drugs or crime.
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