# How Singapore fixed its housing problem

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2018-08-31

affordable, affordable-housing, bloomberg, cities, development, election, evgeny, house, housing, housing-affordability, housing-supply, instagram, real-estate-development, singapore, tokyo, toronto, uncategorized, urbanism, video

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There are a number of affordable housing plans being thrown around in Toronto right now given that we have a municipal election coming up this fall. 

From what I have read, the plans are largely centered around surplus and/or available public land and possibly some subsidies. 

These subsidies are very important because the money has to come from somewhere. This is often overlooked.

In light of these debates, I thought I would share a short Bloomberg video that my friend [Evgeny](https://www.instagram.com/ev25.4/) shared with me this morning all the way from Tokyo.

The video is about how Singapore fixed its housing problem. If you can’t see it embedded below, [click here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjPgNBNeLU).

\[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjPgNBNeLU?rel=0&w=560&h=315\]

It strikes me as being very Singaporean.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/how-singapore-fixed-its-housing-problem)*