A study of the impacts of the marking scheme on controlling anti-social behaviour in Hong Kong public rental housing estates

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chee-pang, John Chung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Estates

Critical evaluation of ‘ageing in place’ in redeveloped public rental housing estates in Hong Kong

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 2006-2039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayantha Wadu Mesthrige ◽  
Siu Leung Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Ageing In Place ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Estates

AbstractThe tremendous growth in the ageing population over the past two decades has compelled the Hong Kong government to reformulate its housing policy by redeveloping and incorporating certain age-friendly housing design elements and facilities into the public housing schemes built in the post-war period. This research investigates whether these introduced design elements and facilities satisfy the numerous special needs of the seniors in line with the concept of ‘ageing in place’. Data were collected from 224 seniors through a comprehensive questionnaire survey in four large-scale redeveloped public rental housing estates. Using three designated built environment dimensions, namely micro, meso and macro, the results revealed that senior tenants were generally satisfied with the present living environments (in all the three scales) in the estates. At the micro-scale, seniors were satisfied with the level of privacy and sense of autonomy derived from the present design features in their homes. For the meso-scale, the study revealed that the seniors were particularly satisfied with the design elements such as convenient transportation and accessibility, including convenient walkways. At the macro-scale, the community care service is deemed important for seniors’ wellbeing. However, more attention is needed on safety measures in interior and shower areas, public seating in common areas and provision of sufficient community care services. This study provides insights for policy makers and development authorities on elderly housing provision.

scholarly journals Applicability of ‘Aging in Place’ in redeveloped public rental housing estates in Hong Kong

Cities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 140-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wadu Mesthrige Jayantha ◽  
Queena K. Qian ◽  
Chan On Yi
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Aging In Place ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Estates

Growing up in Hong Kong before and after 1980

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chim Richard Wong
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
Poor Children ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Housing Units

Hong Kong’s public housing estates are transforming into areas of growing poverty, with more divorced households. They are increasingly weak neighborhoods for motivating children to higher aspirations. There are doubts about the wisdom of continuing the development of more public rental housing units to solve our shortage of housing units. A far better solution is to build subsidized homes for ownership so that families have a stake to stay together and work for a better future. By keeping families together, more children will be prevented from falling into a state of disadvantage that will be detrimental to their future upward social mobility. Why foster and concentrate the poor and the divorced in publicly subsidized ghettos? Poor children deserve a better deal. A city of homeowners is also less politically divided.

Factors Critical for Improving Intergenerational Mobility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chim Richard Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Social Program ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Housing Estates

Failure to appreciate theimportant fact that poverty propagated itself in the absence of a parent or a social program that had time to help young childrenhas allowed child poverty to fester, compromising children’s ability to go to school, their willingness to learn, their attitudes, and their motivation. This is a major cause of worsening intergenerational mobility and poverty. The research findings of Chetty et al. confirm the importance of investing in schooling, of having stable families, and of building communities to provide positive encouragement and support for the disadvantaged. The isolated, remote public housing estates we have in Hong Kong are unlikely to foster such communities.The findings from the US and Hong Kong strongly suggest that public sector housing policy to subsidize low-income families should be changed from providing subsidized rental housing units to homeownership units. This would have three different effects for increasing intergenerational mobility among low-income households.

People like us? Social status, social inequality and perceptions of public rental housing

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAY FORREST ◽  
YING WU
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Firing Line

AbstractOver the last three decades or so, neoliberal policies have had a significant effect on housing sectors across a wide range of societies. State rental sectors, in particular, have been in the ideological firing line. Portrayed as inefficient, unresponsive, monopolistic and anachronistic, they have been typically marketised, privatised and downsized. At the same time, wider societal changes have impacted on their social role and social composition. The overall effect on many public rental sectors is now very familiar – growing social and spatial segregation, enclaves of concentrated and multiple disadvantage and increased stigmatisation. Against this background, Hong Kong's public rental sector has survived relatively unscathed and continues to accommodate around a third of its households. This paper examines the experiences and perceptions of Hong Kong public rental housing among those within and outside the sector. How are public tenants perceived in relation to ideas of social status and social equality? How do public tenants see themselves? The paper draws on a survey of 3,000 individuals in Hong Kong which is part of a larger study concerned with housing provision and social change in the Special Administrative Region.

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