Another housing project built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (the predecessor of HDB), Dakota Crescent is also one of the oldest in the country. But by the end of 2016, Dakota Crescent will be no more; in 2014, the HDB announced that the area was earmarked for redevelopment, meaning that residents have until 31 Dec 2016 to move out of their flats. For most of the residents, some of whom have spent their entire lives in the estate, Dakota Crescent is a collection of childhood memories, the sound of familiar voices and morning greetings. In the eyes of the state, it is an old, low-rise housing estate, the demolition of which is an inevitability that would bring forth new flats, condominiums, or even malls.