An assessment on whether the policy of privatization of public housing provision is an acceptable policy to provide affordable housing in Hong Kong

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Che-hung, Louie Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Housing Provision

PROBLEMS OF LARGE-SCALE HOUSING CONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor P. GENERALOV ◽  
Elena M. GENERALOVA
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
General Strategy ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
Stage Development

In this article stage-by-stage development of large-scale housing in the territory of Russia before 1990 and stagnation in the last ten years caused by absence of general strategy of living environment amenities is viewed. Problems of elaboration of affordable housing new standards are explored, existing regulatory documents are analyzed. In that context Hong Kong experience in large-scale public housing is given as an example.

Third sector housing in 21st-century Hong Kong: opportunities and challenges1

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-358
Author(s):  
Betty Yung ◽  
Alex Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Start Ups

Hong Kong has a large public housing sector that shows strong resilience. Given the approximate half‐half public‐private housing divide in Hong Kong, officials, housing advocates and the general public envisage housing provision, problems and remedies within the ‘rigid’ framework of private and public housing. Social innovation examples of third sector housing as start-ups in ‘social housing’ have emerged in the early 21st century in Hong Kong, thereby forming a ‘new’ model in housing delivery amidst the public‐private binary housing market. This study focuses on the gap filled by third sector housing in Hong Kong through serving as a complement to the private and public housing sectors in meeting unsatisfied general housing needs and as a supplement to both sectors in catering for neglected specialist housing needs. The exact future trajectory of third sector housing development will highly depend on the synergy of different stakeholders in public, private and third sectors as well as the common citizens in its nurturance.

scholarly journals Public Housing in the Global Cities: Hong Kong and Singapore at the Crossroads

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anutosh Das
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
The Government

Affordable Housing, the basic human necessity has now become a critical problem in global cities with direct impacts on people's well-being. While a well-functioning housing market may augment the economic efficiency and productivity of a city, it may trigger housing affordability issues leading crucial economic and political crises side by side if not handled properly. In global cities e.g. Singapore and Hong Kong where affordable housing for all has become one of the greatest concerns of the Government, this issue can be tackled capably by the provision of public housing. In Singapore, nearly 90% of the total population lives in public housing including public rental and subsidized ownership, whereas the figure tally only about 45% in Hong Kong. Hence this study is an effort to scrutinizing the key drivers of success in affordable public housing through following a qualitative case study based research methodological approach to present successful experience and insight from different socio-economic and geo-political context. As a major intervention, this research has clinched that, housing affordability should be backed up by demand-side policies aiming to help occupants and proprietors to grow financial capacity e.g. subsidized rental and subsidized ownership can be an integral part of the public housing system to improve housing affordability.

scholarly journals The spatial pattern of premature mortality in Hong Kong: How does it relate to public housing?

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 1211-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Kandt ◽  
Shu-Sen Chang ◽  
Paul Yip ◽  
Ricky Burdett
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Geographic Variations ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Fully Bayesian

Research into understanding the relationship between access to housing, health and wellbeing in cities has yielded mixed evidence to date and has been limited to case studies from Western countries. Many studies appear to highlight the negative effects of public housing in influencing the health of its residents. Current trends in the urban housing markets in cities of advanced Asian economies and debates surrounding the role of government in providing housing underscore the need for more focused research into housing and health. In this paper, we investigate Hong Kong as an example of a thriving Asian city by exploring and comparing the intra-urban geographies of premature mortality and public housing provision in the city. Using a fully Bayesian spatial structural model, we estimate associations between public housing provision and different types of premature mortality. We find significant geographic variations in premature mortality within Hong Kong during the five-year period 2005–2009, with positive associations between the residents of public housing and premature mortality risk. But the associations attenuate or are even reversed for premature mortality of injuries and non-communicable diseases after controlling for local deprivation, housing instability, access to local amenities and other neighbourhood characteristics. The results indicate that public housing may have a protective effect on community health, which contradicts the findings of similar studies carried out in Western cities. We suggest reasons why the association between public housing and health differs in Hong Kong and discuss the implications for housing policy in Hong Kong and other Asian cities.

Forgotten Obstacles, Neglected Forces: Explaining the Origins of Hong Kong Public Housing

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Smart
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Property Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
Labour Power

There are three explanations in the literature for Hong Kong embarking upon the state provision of housing in 1954. One explanation sees this provision as an inevitable response to the inability of the private sector to provide affordable housing for the influx of immigrants after 1945. The second interprets it as support for the property development industry, rather than for public welfare. The third explanation traces the intervention to the need to reproduce labour power, All three explanations may be criticized for faulty reasoning and for misinterpreting the historical background of the involvement. An argument is made for more attention to the autonomy, although limited, of the state and to the actual and potential resistance of squatters in producing the outcome of squatter resettlement and not just squatter clearance.

scholarly journals The Misallocation Problem of Subsidized Housing: A Lesson from Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1855
Author(s):  
Ka Shing Cheung ◽  
Siu Kei Wong ◽  
Kwong Wing Chau ◽  
Chung Yim Yiu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
National Policy ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Shared Equity ◽  
The Government ◽  
Equity Model

Providing affordable housing has become one of China’s key national policy agenda items. The shared-equity model in Hong Kong, implemented since the late 1970s, has assisted many families in owning a home in the public housing market. However, little attention has been paid to their welfare after acquiring their subsidized units. This study aims to examine how shared-equity homeownership distorts residential mobility through in-kind subsidies. Panel data analysis reveals that the more in-kind subsidies owners receive, the longer they would hold on to their units in spite of spatial mismatches. Private owners, on the other hand, would trade their units without such distortion. Conceptually, the lower mobility of assisted owners could be interpreted as a new source of misallocation in Glaeser and Luttmer’s welfare analysis. Practically, this throws into question the sustainability of a subsidizing homeownership policy: does the government ultimately want assisted homeowners to move from public housing to private housing in the future (for which high mobility would be intended)? If so, new thinking on how to make in-kind subsidies transferable is needed.

From Intervention to Privatisation: The Changing Public Housing Policy in Hong Kong

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Stanley C. W. Yeung ◽  
Francis K. W. Wong ◽  
Eddie C. M. Hui
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Policy
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