This publication by the Housing & Development Board (HDB) narrates the history of the Bukit Ho Swee area from its reputation as an unsavoury squatter area to the historic fire in May 1961 that left 16,000 people homeless, and the subsequent rapid building of HDB blocks on the site of the fire to rehouse these people. In the second part of the publication, it lists the new amenities available in the estate, such as schools, playgrounds and public telephone booths. It concludes with an epilogue about the dangers of living in such squatter conditions.
