Bukit Ho Swee
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Bukit Ho Swee is a place in Singapore
which is located near Jalan Bukit Ho Swee, near Taman Ho Swee. 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, made it an ideal base for gangs who could escape police pursuit which was too dangerous.
A major fire, the Bukit Ho Swee Fire
, broke out on 25 May 1961 and the wooden huts were completely destroyed. The recently constituted Housing and Deveopment Board (HDB), moved in quickly to construct low-cost housing in the form of apartment blocks. Since these were easily patrolled by the police, gang power and influence waned.
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
which is located near Jalan Bukit Ho Swee, near Taman Ho Swee. 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, made it an ideal base for gangs who could escape police pursuit which was too dangerous.
A major fire, the Bukit Ho Swee Fire
Bukit Ho Swee Fire
The Bukit Ho Swee Fire is a fire that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore, on May 25, 1961 at 3.20 p.m. Four people died, eighty-five were injured, and 16,000 were made homeless and more than 2,200 attap houses were destroyed...
, broke out on 25 May 1961 and the wooden huts were completely destroyed. The recently constituted Housing and Deveopment Board (HDB), moved in quickly to construct low-cost housing in the form of apartment blocks. Since these were easily patrolled by the police, gang power and influence waned.