- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Time to Count the Social Cost of Uniting a People Divided
- 2 Setting the Scene
- 3 Supply and Demand Factors in Housing
- 4 On the Nature of Public Sector Housing Policies in Hong Kong
- 5 Comparing Public Sector Housing Policies in Hong Kong and Singapore
- 6 Equal Yet Unequal
- 7 The Inequity of Small Housing Units
- 8 Small Housing Units and High Property Prices
- 9 On Public Housing Policy and Social Justice
- 10 Economic and Social Consequences of Public Housing Policies
- 11 Demand for Homeownership and the Housing Ladder
- 12 How to Warm Up the HOS Secondary Market
- 13 Divorce, Remarriage, and the Long-Term Housing Strategy
- 14 Divorce, Inequality, Poverty, and the Vanishing Middle Class
- 15 The Impact of Global Economic Forces on Housing in Hong Kong
- 16 The Linked Rate, Domestic Stability, and Dual Integration
- 17 Reasons for Keeping the Linked Rate
- 18 Why Speculation Is Not a Bad Thing
- 19 Speculators, Property Agents, and the Spreading of Risk in the Presale Housing Market
- 20 How the Application List System Became the Winner’s Curse
- 21 Is There a High Land-Price Policy in Hong Kong?
- 22 Lima’s Other Path, Tsoi Yuen Village, and the Northeast New Territories
- 23 Stranded between Singapore’s Way and Lima’s Other Path
- 24 Subsidized Housing and Stability
- 25 Diversity and Occasional Anarchy
- 26 Population, Poverty, and the Triumph of the City
- 27 Eighty Percent Homeownership (Part 1)
- 28 Eighty Percent Homeownership (Part 2)
- 29 Conclusions and Reflections
- Epilogue
Time to Count the Social Cost of Uniting a People Divided
Time to Count the Social Cost of Uniting a People Divided
- Chapter:
- (p.3) 1 Time to Count the Social Cost of Uniting a People Divided
- Source:
- Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People
- Author(s):
Yue Chim Richard Wong
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
Chapter 1 highlights the main argument of the book: solutions to control the inflow people will eventually corrode the foundations of our free economy and open society. They will also be futile, inhumane, and self-defeating. Hong Kong should be developed as a metropolis with a population that is much larger than is currently contemplated in official forecasts. And public housing units should be privatized to help residents become a propertied class. In doing so, Hong Kong will soon be gladly welcoming all those who have a legitimate and humanitarian claim to be here.
Keywords: Hong Kong, Housing, Housing policy, Public Housing, Politics, Social mobility, Population, Economics, Growth
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Time to Count the Social Cost of Uniting a People Divided
- 2 Setting the Scene
- 3 Supply and Demand Factors in Housing
- 4 On the Nature of Public Sector Housing Policies in Hong Kong
- 5 Comparing Public Sector Housing Policies in Hong Kong and Singapore
- 6 Equal Yet Unequal
- 7 The Inequity of Small Housing Units
- 8 Small Housing Units and High Property Prices
- 9 On Public Housing Policy and Social Justice
- 10 Economic and Social Consequences of Public Housing Policies
- 11 Demand for Homeownership and the Housing Ladder
- 12 How to Warm Up the HOS Secondary Market
- 13 Divorce, Remarriage, and the Long-Term Housing Strategy
- 14 Divorce, Inequality, Poverty, and the Vanishing Middle Class
- 15 The Impact of Global Economic Forces on Housing in Hong Kong
- 16 The Linked Rate, Domestic Stability, and Dual Integration
- 17 Reasons for Keeping the Linked Rate
- 18 Why Speculation Is Not a Bad Thing
- 19 Speculators, Property Agents, and the Spreading of Risk in the Presale Housing Market
- 20 How the Application List System Became the Winner’s Curse
- 21 Is There a High Land-Price Policy in Hong Kong?
- 22 Lima’s Other Path, Tsoi Yuen Village, and the Northeast New Territories
- 23 Stranded between Singapore’s Way and Lima’s Other Path
- 24 Subsidized Housing and Stability
- 25 Diversity and Occasional Anarchy
- 26 Population, Poverty, and the Triumph of the City
- 27 Eighty Percent Homeownership (Part 1)
- 28 Eighty Percent Homeownership (Part 2)
- 29 Conclusions and Reflections
- Epilogue
