response of Hong Kong government to the housing problems
Introduction:
Hong Kong is a densely populated metropolitan so there are a lot of housing problems especially for the urban poor. As the housing problems in Hong Kong such as the shortage of housing units are getting more acute, it is worth making an in-depth analysis for the sake of gaining a deeper insight of the responses of the government in housing problems.
I will focus on different measures and actions taken by Hong Kong government in 21th Century. All data collected is based on library research and online research. There are three main responses after the comprehensive research. The following are what Hong Kong government gives responses to the housing problems of the urban poor.
Subsidized rental housing should no longer be perceived as a life-long entitlement irrespective of needs and means
(Yeh, 1989) . Y.L. Chan strongly advocates that a rent policy progressively narrowing the difference between public- and private-sector rents with a rebate system to protect the poorer households is highly desirable on both equity and efficiency grounds (interview, 7.6.1994) . Many affluent tenants stay in public housing only because of the cheap rent and heavy sulsidy.
Besides, the charging of higher rents will increase the attractiveness of home ownership and materialize the privatization directive in selling rental flats to sitting tenants (Malpass and Murief 1990) . Housing policy should be designed to channel su.bsidy to the poor and retrieve assistance from better ver since the great uproar over the world record price of our apartment flats, both the government, politicians and pundits are busy scratching their heads to come up with some catchy, easy solutions. One of the most popular suggestions is to resume the Home Ownership Scheme, which would place on the market low cost flats built by the Housing Society with the land costs defrayed. The scheme used to be quite popular among the so-called lower middle class who wanted their own
Hong Kong is a densely populated metropolitan so there are a lot of housing problems especially for the urban poor. As the housing problems in Hong Kong such as the shortage of housing units are getting more acute, it is worth making an in-depth analysis for the sake of gaining a deeper insight of the responses of the government in housing problems.
I will focus on different measures and actions taken by Hong Kong government in 21th Century. All data collected is based on library research and online research. There are three main responses after the comprehensive research. The following are what Hong Kong government gives responses to the housing problems of the urban poor.
Subsidized rental housing should no longer be perceived as a life-long entitlement irrespective of needs and means
(Yeh, 1989) . Y.L. Chan strongly advocates that a rent policy progressively narrowing the difference between public- and private-sector rents with a rebate system to protect the poorer households is highly desirable on both equity and efficiency grounds (interview, 7.6.1994) . Many affluent tenants stay in public housing only because of the cheap rent and heavy sulsidy.
Besides, the charging of higher rents will increase the attractiveness of home ownership and materialize the privatization directive in selling rental flats to sitting tenants (Malpass and Murief 1990) . Housing policy should be designed to channel su.bsidy to the poor and retrieve assistance from better ver since the great uproar over the world record price of our apartment flats, both the government, politicians and pundits are busy scratching their heads to come up with some catchy, easy solutions. One of the most popular suggestions is to resume the Home Ownership Scheme, which would place on the market low cost flats built by the Housing Society with the land costs defrayed. The scheme used to be quite popular among the so-called lower middle class who wanted their own