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The Bukit Ho Swee fire [a] was a conflagration that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore on 25 May 1961. This fire resulted in 4 deaths and injured another 54. It also destroyed more than 2,800 houses around the Bukit Ho Swee area, leaving around 16,000 people homeless.
Up to 240,000 squatters were in the Singapore during the 1950s because of the movement of migrants, especially from Peninsular Malaysia and the baby boom. [1] In mid-1959, overcrowded slums were inhabited by a big number of squatter populations, and the areas lacked the existence of service facilities such as sanitation. [2]
The other deleterious effect of squatter settlements was that many of these were built of highly flammable materials, were poorly constructed and thus posed a high fire risk. A prominent example in this case is the Bukit Ho Swee Squatter Fire that broke out in 1961.
The State Development Plan 1961–1964 is published. It aims to improve conditions in Singapore, during a time of high unemployment. [23] Queenstown New Town is being built and expanded to cater for a growing population. This comes after slow progress under the previous Singapore Improvement Trust. [24]
Bukit Ho Swee had a prominent Chinese community dating back to the days when Singapore was under British rule. Built over with wood frame huts with thatched roofs, it was an unplanned self-built township of about 20,000; although, like favelas everywhere, no census was ever taken. Its rabbit warren of narrow lanes, passable only to pedestrians ...
Adele Andaloro, a 47-year-old homeowner in Queens, New York, captured national attention last month when she was arrested on her own property for changing the locks after squatters had moved in ...
The proliferation of squatter settlements resulted in safety hazards and caused the Bukit Ho Swee Fire in 1961 that killed four people and left 16,000 others homeless. [95] The Housing Development Board set up before independence continued to be largely successful and huge building projects sprung up to provide affordable public housing to ...
New York's squatter's rights laws have once again become the focus of public attention. Adele Andaloro inherited her family’s home in Flushing, Queens after her parents passed away. As she was ...