Abstract
Singapore’s public housing policies are widely known for their success in providing housing for over 80% of the residential population, with most owning homes. Extensive housing schemes generally offer a set of fixed housing layouts; yet, at the microscale of an individual dwelling, alterations to the units can be made by rearranging the floor plans to reflect the usage patterns of the household, thus adding diversity to the fixed configuration. The aim of this paper is to identify associations among a housing unit’s spatial properties by analysing fixed configurations and altered floor plans as well as determining the spatial preferences of the inhabitants. The research methodology applied in this paper has been divided into two parts: spatial network analysis and survey analysis. In the spatial network analysis, the configurations of individual housing units and altered units were compared by translating floor plans into graphs. The survey functions as a qualitative analysis to relate the lifestyle patterns of contemporary society to housing configurations.
Highlights
Spatial Properties of Dwellings andThe provision of large-scale public housing represents a major aspect of the welfare system
Sim, Yu, and Han [7] evaluate the success of the implemented public housing policy in dispersing ethnic enclaves and integrating the multi-ethnic population, which enables the social resilience needed by Singapore as a multiracial nation
The results show that in general, few first-time owners occupy these flats, which implies that Housing and Development Board (HDB) occupants tend to move frequently from one place to another
Summary
Spatial Properties of Dwellings andThe provision of large-scale public housing represents a major aspect of the welfare system. Singapore’s housing policies have been labelled ‘phenomenally successful’ by other countries [3] because of their ability to provide home ownership, which explains the considerable number of studies on Singapore’s public housing programme [4,5]. Sim, Yu, and Han [7] evaluate the success of the implemented public housing policy in dispersing ethnic enclaves and integrating the multi-ethnic population, which enables the social resilience needed by Singapore as a multiracial nation. The literature indicates how the Singapore government has used public housing as a policy instrument to manage and integrate the multi-ethnic population, whereas in the period before 1960, various ethnic groups were spatially segregated and concentrated in certain parts of the island, thereby creating enclaves
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