Mr Lee ‘showed foresight in urban development’
Professor Chua Beng Huat noted the move to mix all public housing types -- one-room, three-room and above -- so no ghetto developed had the unintended consequence of making inequality "invisible". This, he said, resulted in a "neglect" of the "idea of poverty" until recently, when the inequality problem grew more pronounced.
By Elgin Toh and Charissa Yong, The Straits Times, 19 September 2013, A8