Ethnic Integration Policy

Singapore has an ethnic integration policy in place. It sounds a bit like the one Oak Park used (quite illegally) to block the block-busting back in the day: only so many of each specified minority in a given block.

In the 60s and 70s, the government had undertaken mass resettling exercises, taking pains to ensure an even distribution of races. But by the 80s, this was no longer possible, since much of the land had already been developed into occupied residential estates. The EIP was thus put in place to counter the formation of ethnic enclaves during a time when certain neighbourhoods were starting to be dominated by one ethnicity or another.

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If you are a Singapore citizen or Malaysian PR buying a resale flat from someone of the same race, you do not have to worry about the EIP or HDB quota, as the transaction would not change the racial makeup of the neighbourhood.

For all other transactions, you will only be allowed to buy the flat if the quota for your race has not been exceeded.

Singapore is not noted for liberty, and I gather that elections tend not to shake up the establishment.