Housing Policy
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Hong Kong’s Economic Recovery Hinges on Having Enough Adequate Housing
High rents deter talent and investment despite R&D subsidies. The article calls for rapid housing supply expansion, rezoning, and public-housing reform.
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Hong Kong must Stop Letting the Well-Off Hog Public Rental Housing
Generous income limits and rent subsidies mean well-off households are occupying public housing, forcing the poor to rent from the cutthroat private market. This needs to change.
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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.
