KINIBIZ Tiger naturally understands little about this human predilection called housing. Come nightfall we prowlers look around for a nice, dry place, make a little nest with whatever leaves and such stuff are available, close our eyes and go to sleep.

In the morning, Tiger walks away from his abode - another night another place.

But humans have a way of making everything complicated, much more than it needs to be, while Tigers believe in keeping things simple and straightforward. How could affordable housing be unaffordable as this article says?

Let Tiger run you through the gist of the article. Apparently developers turn to higher end developments not only for better profits, but because they cannot survive in the affordable housing segment, according to several property developers.

But perhaps that's not the full story, Tiger thinks. Human beings have this strange propensity to accumulate things way above what they need - greedy in other words. So give them a choice between two alternatives - one that makes less money but helps more people and one that makes more money but helps less people and they will invariably chose the latter.

It's different in the animal kingdom. Yes we may seem rather brutal, we Tigers kill to eat but so do humans, only they don't quite see it that way. But we don't accumulate earthly possessions and make it the most important reason for our existence the way humans do.

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This article was written by P Gunasegaram.