LEADER 04894nam 2200565 450 001 9910460260203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a988-8313-04-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000320759 035 $a(EBL)3011744 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001469243 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11793085 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001469243 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11536451 035 $a(PQKB)11616367 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001190362 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3011744 035 $a(OCoLC)900825920 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42307 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3011744 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10998252 035 $a(OCoLC)913651343 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000320759 100 $a20150109h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHong Kong land for Hong Kong people $efixing the failures of our housing policy /$fYue Chim Richard Wong 210 1$aHong Kong, [China] :$cThe Hong Kong University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a988-8208-65-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aPreface -- Hong Kong housing policies over the years -- Time to count the social cost of uniting a people divided -- Setting the scene : an overview of long-term housing strategies in Hong Kong -- Supply and demand factors in housing -- People, public housing, and serfdom -- On the nature of public sector housing policies in Hong Kong -- Comparing public sector housing policies in Hong Kong and Singapore -- Equal yet unequal : the occupants of private and public housing units -- The inequity of small housing units -- Small housing units and high property prices -- On public housing policy and social justice -- Economic and social consequences of public housing policies -- Demand for homeownership and the housing ladder -- How to warm up the hos secondary market -- Divorce, remarriage, and the long-term housing strategy -- Divorce, inequality, poverty, and the vanishing middle class -- The wider economic influences on housing policies -- The impact of global economic forces on housing in Hong Kong -- The linked rate, domestic stability, and dual integration -- Reasons for keeping the linked rate -- Why speculation is not a bad thing -- Speculators, property agents, and the spreading of risk in the presale housing market -- How the application list system became the winner's curse -- The political economy of land use -- Is there a high land-price policy in Hong Kong? -- Lima's other path, Tsoi Yuen Village, and the Northeast New Territories -- Stranded between Singapore's way and Lima's other path -- Subsidized housing and stability : lessons for China -- Diversity and occasional anarchy : land, people, and growth -- Population, poverty, and the triumph of the city -- Creating a city of homeowners -- Eighty percent homeownership (part 1) : a cost-free solution -- Eighty percent homeownership (part 2) : benefits and challenges -- Conclusions and reflections -- Epilogue : homeownership and the youth protest movement. 330 $aHong Kong is one of the world's most densely populated cities. Land supply, property values and housing provision are inextricably linked with the city's economic growth and questions of economic equality. In Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, Yue Chim Richard Wong traces the history of Hong Kong's postwar housing policy. He then discusses current housing problems and their solutions, drawing on examples from around the world. Wong argues that housing policy in Hong Kong, with its multiple, often incompatible objectives, and its focus on supply over demand, can no longer satisfy the needs of a diverse and dynamic population. He recommends three simple low-cost policies to promote home ownership and social mobility: sell public rental housing units to the sitting tenants; make subsidized homes more affordable; and reform the public housing program along lines adopted in Singapore, where government-built housing may be resold or leased in a free market. This is the second of Richard Wong's collections of articles on society and economy in Hong Kong. The first, Diversity and Occasional Anarchy, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2013, examines the growing contradictions in Hong Kong's economy predicament in historical context. 606 $aHousing policy$zChina$zHong Kong 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHousing policy 676 $a363.580951 700 $aWong$b Yue Chim Richard$01039959 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460260203321 996 $aHong Kong land for Hong Kong people$92462455 997 $aUNINA