jalan kukoh

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This Is What Change in Jalan Kukoh Looks Like

This Is What Change in Jalan Kukoh Looks Like

...look the same, but it’s nevertheless happening in first-world Singapore. A few months ago, we launched a series on Jalan Kukoh—a rental-housing estate that’s one of the poorest neighbourhoods in...

by Justin Vanderstraaten

September 4, 2019

Districts

I Live in Jalan Kukoh, One of the Poorest Neighbourhoods in Singapore. This is My Story.

I Live in Jalan Kukoh, One of the Poorest Neighbourhoods in Singapore. This is My Story.

This is the first piece in a series on Jalan Kukoh’s rental housing situation. Through an exploration of people and public policy, the series attempts to help us understand how...

by Belle Tustain

May 9, 2019

Elbow-to-Elbow in Jalan Kukoh: The Reality of Overcrowding in Singapore’s Rental Housing

Elbow-to-Elbow in Jalan Kukoh: The Reality of Overcrowding in Singapore’s Rental Housing

All illustrations by Jolene Tan. The author is involved in a ground-up initiative in the Jalan Kukoh neighbourhood. All anecdotes in this article are based on first-hand observations. School is...

by Huimin Y

May 29, 2019

The View from Kukoh: Belle

The View from Kukoh: Belle

Poverty looks different in every country. In Singapore, it looks like Jalan Kukoh. In the first video of our series on the rental housing estate, we dive into the story...

by RICE

May 29, 2019

The View from Kukoh: Ikhmal

The View from Kukoh: Ikhmal

In the second video of our series on Jalan Kukoh, we squeeze into a 1-room rental flat with a young family of 8 and learn why this environment is neither...

by RICE

December 11, 2019

The View From Kukoh: Mary

The View From Kukoh: Mary

There are those who strive to move out of Jalan Kukoh. But many of its elderly residents will likely spend the rest of their lives there. We conclude our video...

by RICE

December 11, 2019

Amongst Us

Ikhmal, Father of 6, Responds to Online Comments

Ikhmal, Father of 6, Responds to Online Comments

Photography by Cheryl Tang. 4 months ago, we shared the story of Ikhmal, a father of 6 who lives in a 1-room rental flat in Jalan Kukoh. Most comments were...

by Yeo Boon Ping

September 20, 2019

Hits and Misses: A Last Look At 2019

Hits and Misses: A Last Look At 2019

...The View from Kukoh, where we shared the experiences of Belle, Ikhmal and Mary, living and growing up in Jalan Kukoh, one of Singapore’s poorest estates. In producing this series,...

by Mark Tan

January 1, 2020

Districts

The Only HDB Block of 1-Room Rental Flats in Holland Village

The Only HDB Block of 1-Room Rental Flats in Holland Village

...in Chinatown and Jalan Kukoh are prime examples. Singapore’s lack of a poverty line reinforces the view that poverty does not exist in the country—and that domestic poverty is a...

by Alethea Quek

June 12, 2023

Grindsets

A Hawker, a Sugarcane Machine, and the Ultimate Price of Burnout

A Hawker, a Sugarcane Machine, and the Ultimate Price of Burnout

...try not to think about it,” he tells me and my colleagues when we catch up with him at his home, a humble three-room HDB flat in Jalan Kukoh. This,...

by Kimberly Lim

November 7, 2024

Government & Politics

Tackling Social Inequality With Literacy

Tackling Social Inequality With Literacy

...one step to correcting social inequality starts with literacy, and she has made it her personal mission to offer English lessons for children from Jalan Kukoh, a rental housing neighbourhood....

by RICE

September 16, 2021

Grindsets

Can You Build A Business, Raise a Family, and Find Your Life’s Purpose? Female Entrepreneurs Say Yes

Can You Build A Business, Raise a Family, and Find Your Life’s Purpose? Female Entrepreneurs Say Yes

...community-led initiative in Jalan Kukoh that provides a platform for home-based small businesses run by mothers—like Ijah—within that residential community. “For me, Project Cookoh keeps me personally and mentally engaged...

by Priyashini Segar

December 11, 2020