A president in Yishun: Halimah Yacob and the jumbo HDB flat

When Halimah Yacob became President of Singapore in September 2017, attention turned to the fact that she lived in a jumbo HDB flat in Yishun. Her residence there — and the later question of whether she would move out for security reasons — put the estate in the national-politics spotlight, an unusually dignified entry in Yishun's otherwise offbeat media record.