- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 The Panama Syndrome and the Origins of Deep Contradictions -
2 Contradictions in the Policy Environment -
3 Growing as a Part of China: A Historical Perspective -
4 External Shocks and Price Stability under the Linked Rate -
5 Why the Present Budget Policy Is Still the Most Sensible -
6 Looming Population Challenges -
7 Economic Competition and Structural Change -
8 Global Economic Integration and the Distribution of Housing Wealth -
9 Diversity and Occasional Anarchy: The Key to a Great City -
10 Cities, Human Capital, and Economic Development -
11 On the Creative and Innovative Economy -
12 Core Values, Functional Constituencies, and the Democratic Principle -
13 Simple Ideas in Political Economy -
14 Taxation, Regulation, and the Rational Politician -
15 Why Is Housing So Expensive? -
16 Education for Equality and Growth -
17 On Public Health Care Finances -
18 Mandatory Provident Fund Needs Reform -
19 Can We Afford Old Age Social Security? -
20 Economic Consequences of Universal Old Age Social Pensions -
21 How Can We Get Out of the Housing Quandary? -
22 Why Reforming Subsidized Housing Makes Sense - About the Author
Why Reforming Subsidized Housing Makes Sense
Why Reforming Subsidized Housing Makes Sense
- Chapter:
- (p.209) 22 Why Reforming Subsidized Housing Makes Sense
- Source:
- Diversity and Occasional Anarchy
- Author(s):
Yue Chim Richard Wong
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
The author primarily explains the context and reasons for his proposal from the previous chapter. He believes that the proposed policy change would be conducive to alleviating a portion of the deep contradictions in our community between the haves and the have-nots. The author also speaks of two more initiatives which the government has to take into account, and the first one is to identify more suitable Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) units for sale in stages to sitting tenants in an attempt to facilitate upward mobility of the have-nots. Secondly, some future public housing estates should contain a clause which offers sitting tenants the option of purchasing the unit at a predetermined price after a certain period.
Keywords: Tenants Purchase Scheme, Upward mobility, Sitting tenants, Deep contradictions, Policies, Hong Kong, China, Economy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 The Panama Syndrome and the Origins of Deep Contradictions -
2 Contradictions in the Policy Environment -
3 Growing as a Part of China: A Historical Perspective -
4 External Shocks and Price Stability under the Linked Rate -
5 Why the Present Budget Policy Is Still the Most Sensible -
6 Looming Population Challenges -
7 Economic Competition and Structural Change -
8 Global Economic Integration and the Distribution of Housing Wealth -
9 Diversity and Occasional Anarchy: The Key to a Great City -
10 Cities, Human Capital, and Economic Development -
11 On the Creative and Innovative Economy -
12 Core Values, Functional Constituencies, and the Democratic Principle -
13 Simple Ideas in Political Economy -
14 Taxation, Regulation, and the Rational Politician -
15 Why Is Housing So Expensive? -
16 Education for Equality and Growth -
17 On Public Health Care Finances -
18 Mandatory Provident Fund Needs Reform -
19 Can We Afford Old Age Social Security? -
20 Economic Consequences of Universal Old Age Social Pensions -
21 How Can We Get Out of the Housing Quandary? -
22 Why Reforming Subsidized Housing Makes Sense - About the Author
