Under a pilot scheme called Thrive21+, four youths trade residential care for renting on the open market. Missed rent payments, landlord prejudice and loneliness soon reveal the realities facing care leavers ageing out of the system. SINGAPORE: When Edward (not his real name) first unpacked his belongings in his new room, he felt triumphant. “I’ve won in life already,” he thought as he moved into a flat — at age 19 — with three others he had grown up with at Melrose Home. The residential care