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C. Housing as an
Instrument of
Development
A
1. Government regulation
of housing market,
lacking active public
intervention in production and distribution mechanisms
2. Emergence of housing
classes, reflecting the
inequalities of the
social structure (upper
income suburbs,
squatter settlements,
etc.)
3. Economic exploitation
4. Market rental
B
1. Selective intervention
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
by governments or
public bodies to provide housing to low
income groups
Public housing
programmes
Relocation into public
housing
Relocation problems
Increasing government
control through
manipulation of landlord-tenant relationship
Rent control
C
1. Housing as part of
A
I. Development of
satellite towns
2. Public investment in
infrastructure for
housing development
3. Self-help housing for
working class
I. Urban renewal
2. Sites and services
development
3. Management and
maintenance problems
of public housing
4. Development of social
infrastructure, i.e.
community development projects
I. Housing provided
closer to the industrial
sites
2. Development of
community services
3. Transportation
network to integrate
the industrial site with
the city / society
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Reference Note
I This research was undertaken in Singapore between
1970 and 1975 Major findings have been published in
Families in Flats (Singapore University Press, 1977)