Habitat for Humanity Singapore's national director Yong Teck Meng is busy cleaning up all the homes of the elderly poor slumming it out behind closed doors in a nation without slums. He sees his Project Homeworks to clean up the homes of the destitute elderly as a solution to bring together an increasingly stratified Singapore society today where many Singaporeans have never stepped into a rental flat. His goal is to naturalise looking out for the old before 2030 arrives - by which he will be 68 and among the aged here. To his great comfort, a bunch of SMU students, led by his daughter, did its house cleaning here last year. Since then, the students have "adopted" a few elderly poor, returning weekly with meals or taking them to the doctor. "It's a self-starting thing. So I pray that this is something that can happen naturally and regularly," said the man, who speaks rapid-fire, his idioms speckled with Singlish and dialect.