Imagine your economic engine suddenly grinding to a complete halt.
Welcome back to Uniquely My Home, your ultimate guide to Singapore’s housing mobility journey. In Episode 3, we are diving deep into the year 1985—the year of Singapore's first brutal post-independence recession.
While standard economic textbooks advised freezing mega-projects and going into survival mode, Singapore did the exact opposite. They didn’t just survive a recession; they used urban planning, public housing, and infrastructure to build a high-tech fortress.
In this episode, we unpack:

• The 1985 Economic Plot Twist: How corporate tax cuts and CPF rate adjustments saved the economy when the global market crashed.

• The Architectural Revolution: Why Singapore abandoned boring, copy-paste HDB block designs for the iconic stepped profiles of Bishan and the pitched roofs of Pasir Ris to boost civic pride.

• The Power of Decentralisation: How the URA Concept Plans began shifting high-paying corporate jobs out of the CBD and straight into Regional Centres like Tampines.

• The Hyper-Connected Spine: The game-changing launch of the MRT system on November 7, 1987, and how it signaled unmatched infrastructure to global investors.

• Social Engineering & Premium Living: Why the government introduced the Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) in 1989, alongside premium housing like Executive Maisonettes and private condominiums.

Smash that SUBSCRIBE and SHARE button if you remember the day your neighbourhood finally got its MRT station, and join us as we gear up for the roaring 90s!

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