Chua Beng Huat's guest appearances

Chua Beng Huat

Institute of Policy Studies

Humanities Lectures

UCLA Housing Voice

Ian Rankin

Roger Clark

Marilyn Waring

Dana Cuff

John Mueller

Tom Shakespeare

Richard Bauckham

Erica Chenoweth

Albert Moore

Jimmy Lee

Brian Turner

Doug Johnstone

Lloyd Geering

James Cox

Tom Mullen

OwlTail

“The government and its housing agency are thus constantly, indeed permanently, engaged in acts of balancing competing demands.” This is the situation that the Housing &amp; Development Board, which builds public, owner-occupied housing for the vast majority of Singapore’s citizens and permanent residents, has created for itself. And they’ve been phenomenally successful at maintaining that balance: 85% of Singaporeans own a public housing unit — on a 99-year lease, not permanently — and prices for new homes have stayed relatively affordable for decades. What did it take to get there, where has Singapore’s leadership fallen short along the way, and what lessons can be exported to other nations? Professor Chua Beng Huat of the National University of Singapore and Yale-NUS College gives us a detailed history of the small island nation’s public housing program, and explains how a responsive government and a program of constant policy “patches” keeps it all running.

<p>“The government and its housing agency are thus constantly, indeed permanently, engaged in acts of balancing competing demands.” This is the situation that the Housing &amp; Development Board, which builds public, owner-occupied housing for the vast majority of Singapore’s citizens and permanent residents, has created for itself. And they’ve been phenomenally successful at maintaining that balance: 85% of Singaporeans own a public housing unit — on a 99-year lease, not permanently — and prices for new homes have stayed relatively affordable for decades. What did it take to get there, where has Singapore’s leadership fallen short along the way, and what lessons can be exported to other nations? Professor Chua Beng Huat of the National University of Singapore and Yale-NUS College gives us a detailed history of the small island nation’s public housing program, and explains how a responsive government and a program of constant policy “patches” keeps it all running.</p>

Ep 28: Singapore's Public Housing with Chua Beng Huat

Professor Chua Beng Huat, National University of Singapore, speaks on  ‘Managing Multiculturalism: Immigration, Population Policy and Citizenship in Singapore’. Since Singapore’s independence the management of race, multiculturalism and multi-religiosity has been a central concern of the government. This presentation explores the implications of multiculturalism on recent immigration and population policies in contemporary Singapore. 29 April 2013

Asian Migrations Research Theme: Professor Chua Beng Huat

Session II: Presentation by Professor Chua Beng Huat by Institute of Policy Studies

Session II: Presentation by Professor Chua Beng Huat