Housing Policy

  • The Way Out for Hong Kong’s Subdivided Housing Problem

    This article proposes two policy reforms to resolve Hong Kong’s subdivided housing crisis: (1) adjusting public rental housing rents to be proportionate to tenants’ income, and (2) halving the premium for subsidised home ownership schemes. Together, the reforms would shorten public rental housing waiting times, ease the subdivided housing shortage, and impose no additional burden on the government fiscal deficit.