While its core objective is to ensure affordable housing, public housing also fulfils another equally important policy objective of encouraging family formation, says Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s Woo Jun Jie.

The new measures move us toward treating child-raising as something to build and maintain collectively as a society, says Kalpana Vignehsa from the Institute of Policy Studies.

While its core objective is to ensure affordable housing, public housing also fulfils another equally important policy objective of encouraging family formation, says Lee Kuan Yew…