Is this actually true? Singapore seems to have built, well, their entire country around public housing. I can understand this being more expensive, but drastica

Is this actually true? Singapore seems to have built, well, their entire country around public housing. I can understand this being more expensive, but drastically so seems hard to believe. Bringing more units online won't matter much if people can't afford them. Zoning (which is what I take abundance to refer to) can only do so much—we will need to attack housing as a commodity (or an asset, depending on who you listen to) in order to make a dent on the housing issues outside the upper middle class.