‘Yes, the country needs them – but not in my backyard’

The Star Online, 13 Sep 2008, Seah Chiang Nee

Residents of Serangoon Gardens have lived cocooned lives largely shielded from the overcrowding elsewhere and are aghast to find out 1,500 new neighbours may be moving in – to be housed in a disused school.

THIS is the story of how a quiet neighbourhood of 4,000 families wakes up one morning to learn that a bit of Singapore’s giant-size problem is about to land on its doorsteps.

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