COURTESY SINGAPORE HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD
Public housing in the Punggol area of Singapore includes this waterfront complex.
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The “Singapore Solution” to low-income housing sounds great on the surface, but would not work in Hawaii (“The Singapore solution,” Star-Advertiser, Nov. 17). Singapore has very strong laws governing drugs, crime and behavior assuring that the high-rises will be well-kept.
In Honolulu, with our much more liberal laws and enforcement, we would be building a larger Kuhio Park Terrace with all of its problems. No, thank you.
Ron Palma
Hawaii Kai
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