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- Singapore's public housing apartments are home to about 80% of the country's resident population.
- In recent years, some flats have gone on to fetch over 1 million Singapore dollars on the market.
- HDB estates are designed to encourage social interaction, thus helping make Singapore the world's sixth Blue Zone.
Singapore's skyline would not be complete without its candy-colored, high-rise public housing apartment blocks.
Constructed by the Housing Development Board, these apartments are colloquially known as HDB flats.
Like many Singaporeans, I grew up in an HDB flat in central Singapore — and I've been living in the same one with my family for almost two decades.