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<p>What happens when an entire community is moved? <br/><br/>Dakota Crescent was one of Singapore&apos;s oldest public housing estates and a rental flat neighbourhood for low-income households. In 2016, its residents&mdash;many of whom are elderly&mdash;were relocated to Cassia Crescent to make way for redevelopment. To help them resettle, a group of volunteers came together and formed the Cassia Resettlement Team.<br/><br/><em>They Told Us to Move</em> tells the story of the relocation through interviews with the residents from the Dakota community and reflections by the volunteers. Accompanying these are essays by various academics on urban planning; gender and family; ageing, poverty, and social services; civil society and citizenship; and architectural heritage and place-making. Through this three-part conversation, the book explores human stories of devotion, expectation, and remembrance. It asks what we can achieve through voluntary action and how we can balance self-reliance and public services.<br/><br/>This book is for people who want to understand the kind of society we are, and question what kind of society we want to be.</p>