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In 1959, Singapore was having a severe housing crisis and its first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew set up the Housing and Development Board (HDB) to build rental units for the poor. Amid increasing racial tension, the HDB had a hard time convincing people to leave their informal settlements for new high-rises. Then came the still unexplained fire which broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee on May 25, 1961. The government successfully rehoused all of the fire victims within a year and built new housing on the site of the disaster in the next five years. Today HDB has planned, designed and built over 1 million apartments spreading over the city-state.
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