The Housing Question: Who Is My Neighbour?

By Steven Sim

June 2017 ODDLY ENOUGH
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Allowing diversity into our neighbourhoods is the only way to defeat extremism.Vincent van Gogh's The Good Samaritan, After Delacroix.Oddly enough, the fundamental issue with housing today can be summed up in what perhaps is the most famous sociological question in history: “Who is my neighbour?”Those of you who are familiar with it will know that it is from the Bible, specifically from the story of the Good Samaritan.The great thinker, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s alter ego, wrote, and I freely...

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Steven Sim

is the MP for Bukit Mertajam and Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports.

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