Download or read book Hong Kong s Long Term Housing Strategy written by Kar-Tung Ronnie Chan and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Hong Kong's Long-term Housing Strategy: an Analysis of the New Rent and Home Ownership Policy" by Kar-tung, Ronnie, Chan, 陳家棟, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: newspaper clippings, and literature on social science. In order to have first hand information, I have requested the Housing Branch, political parties and the PCPHP, to provide me with relevant information for the study.17 The specific purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between social and housing policy, the development of housing policy in Hong Kong, the influence of the different actors, the true meaning of housing, as well as the characteristics between different forms of tenure and their respective advantages and disadvantages. Attempts will be made to answer the following questions: a) Which is the best form of housing tenure for Hong Kong? b) Should housing policy be market driven? c) Will the measures of LTHSR be effective to achieving the desired goals? d) Will public participation be a better choice in making housing policy in Hong Kong? Plan for the Chapters This chapter has specified the research problem and presented the background, purpose, and significance of the study findings. The following chapter will present a review of the literature and the pertinent theoretical concepts related to the research. Chapter 3 describes the evolution of the housing policy from the then fragmented, ad hoc, centralised to the one of consultative, quasi-centralised and market oriented in nature. Chapter 4 analyses the views of the actors such as pressure groups and political parties and their influences on policy-making. Chapter 5 presents an assessment of the LTHSR in relation to the rationale and ideology of the government and examine the feasibility of the new rent policy. Chapter 6 concludes the findings of the research and presents recommendations for future references. 11 DOI: 10.5353/th_b3025204 Subjects: Public housing - China - Hong Kong - Rent Home ownership - Government policy - China - Hong Kong Housing policy - China - Hong Kong Housing policy Public housing - Rent Home ownership - Government policy

Download or read book Hong Kong s Long term Housing Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Uncorrected OCR) newspaper clippings, and literature on social science. In order to have first hand information, I have requested the Housing Branch, political parties and the PCPHP, to provide me with relevant information for the study. 17 The specific purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between social and housing policy, the development of housing policy in Hong Kong, the influence of the different actors, the true meaning of housing, as well as the characteristics between different forms of tenure and their respective advantages and disadvantages. Attempts will be made to answer the following questions: a) Which is the best form of housing tenure for Hong Kong? b) Should housing policy be market driven? c) Will the measures of LTHSR be effective to achieving the desired goals? d) Will public participation be a better choice in making housing policy in Hong Kong? Plan for the Chapters This chapter has specified the research problem and presented the background, purpose, and significance of the study findings. The following chapter will present a review of the literature and the pertinent theoretical concepts related to the research. Chapter 3 describes the evolution of the housing policy from the then fragmented, ad hoc, centralised to the one of consultative, quasi-centralised and market oriented in nature. Chapter 4 analyses the views of the actors such as pressure groups and political parties and their influences on policy-making. Chapter 5 presents an assessment of the LTHSR in relation to the rationale and ideology of the government and examine the feasibility of the new rent policy. Chapter 6 concludes the findings of the research and presents recommendations for future references. 11.

Download or read book An Evaluative Analysis of the Long Term Housing Strategy in Hong Kong written by Shing-Kwong Eric Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Privatisation and the Long Term Housing Strategy in Hong Kong written by Steve Kwok-Leung Chan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homes for Hong Kong People Into 21st Century A White Paper on Long Term Housing Strategy in Hong Kong written by Housing Department and published by . This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homes for Hong Kong People Into the 21st Century written by Hong Kong and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hong Kong s Housing Policy written by Betty Yung and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines housing policy in Hong Kong using a new and unique interdisciplinary approach – combining the philosophical discussion on social justice with policy and housing studies. It considers both Western and Chinese concepts of social justice, and investigates the role of social justice in a public policy such as housing. As a philosophical treatise on social administration, the book will be of interest to philosophy, public administration, and housing studies academics and students of all countries. Since Hong Kong represents a very special case with massive governmental intervention into the housing market, housing professionals and policy makers will find the analysis of Hong Kong's housing policy useful.

Download or read book Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Long Term Housing Strategy in Hong Kong written by Wai-Sze Cissi Chan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reviewing the Long Term Manpower Strategy of the Hong Kong Housing Authority written by Ho-Nam Belle Mok and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Reviewing the Long-term Manpower Strategy of the Hong Kong Housing Authority: a Prinicipal-agent Model Analysis" by Ho-nam, Belle, Mok, 莫可南, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government is definitely a typical example of a tradition bureaucracy which translates policies into actions. It relies on neutral and career civil servants working in the Weberian hierarchy to deliver public goods and services. The principal-agent theory may be used to study the contractual and hierarchical relationships in the public bureaucracy. It postulates that agents have conflicts of interests and information advantages over their principals and make use of opportunities to manipulate their principals and the political process for gains. Hence, an appropriate manpower strategy, either by external labour market or internal labour market, is necessary to ensure agents choose those courses of actions that produce desirable outcomes so as to achieve organizational objectives and operational efficiency. The Hong Kong Housing Authority ("HKHA"), as a statutory body, is responsible for formulating public housing policies in Hong Kong whereas the Housing Department, as the executive arm of the HKHA and one of sixty-one government departments, is responsible for its implementation with the objectives of the Government's Long Term Housing Strategy. In late 1990s, the Government embarked many public management reforms in which the fundamental ways in delivering public goods and services have been altered. Since 1998, the HKHA has introduced many substantial reforms in its core businesses, including an aggressive manpower strategy of employing contract staff and ceasing the recruitment of civil servants. The HKHA's original long-term manpower strategy which mainly relies on the civil service fits the Internal Labour Market model very well and promotion serves as an effective mechanism to achieve organizational efficiency. However, the employment of contract staff which introduced a number of efficiency features from the external labour market fails to appreciate the importance of promotion, and operational inefficiency was found as evidenced by various documentary sources and analyses from interviewees. The findings of this study are consistent with the Hypotheses and it is recommended that the HKHA explore alternative human resource management policies and practices, in additional to the existing ones, to cope with the rising public expectations and the increasing challenges for the years ahead. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4871493 Subjects: Personnel management

Download or read book Long Term Housing Strategy written by Hong Kong and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People written by Yue Chim Richard Wong and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong 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 homeownership 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.

Download or read book The Demand and Supply of Public Rental Housing in Hong Kong written by Yau-Cheong Leo Kan and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Demand and Supply of Public Rental Housing in Hong Kong: an Analysis" by Yau-cheong, Leo, Kan, 簡祐昌, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Housing is politically important and thus governments tend to intervene in housing market a lot. Today, housing is one of most significant livelihood issues in Hong Kong. Solving the housing problem is accorded with top priority by the current Government. Therefore, the Government formed the Long Term Housing Strategy Steering Committee in September 2012 to make recommendations on housing strategy of Hong Kong for the next ten years. One of the areas for study is the sharp increase in number of Waiting List applications which is indeed an expression of imbalance between demand and supply for public rental housing. After the Global Financial Crisis, the number of Waiting List applications has doubled in five years, at a compound annual growth rate of15.4%. Such increase is a combined result of increase in demand, decrease in supply and inefficient allocation of public rental housing for Waiting List applicants. This dissertation firstly attempts to find out the factors and root causes leading to this phenomenon, and then tries to work out some possible solutions for solving the present problem of public rental housing. By analyzing the components of housing system namely demand, supply and allocation, the root causes leading to their changes are studied, with aim to explain the recent sharp increase in Waiting List applications for public rental housing in Hong Kong. The areas of analyses include the demographic changes, single non-elderly applicants, affordability problem for private housing, supply of new production and recovery of public rental housing flats for Waiting List applicants, eligibility for public rental housing, and the efficiency of allocation mechanism. In addition, the desire of Waiting List applicants for public rental housing is also studied through a questionnaire survey because similar secondary data are not available. Lastly, due to the inelasticity of supply of housing to demand, it is essential for the Government to take timely measures before crisis is happened which may eventually affect the effective governance, suggestions are thus made accordingly in the last part of this dissertation with aim to reduce the sustained imbalance between supply and demand for public rental housing in Hong Kong. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5334629 Subjects: Public housing - China - Hong Kong

Download or read book Land and Housing Controversies in Hong Kong written by Betty Yung and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses land and housing controversies in Hong Kong, which offer a point of reference for the comparison and analysis of similar or contrasting cases overseas from the perspective of social values. It enhances readers’ understanding of the social values, philosophical and theoretical issues that underpin land and housing controversies, as well as their policy implications. The discussion in each chapter goes beyond mere substantive and contextual analysis, and is explicitly positioned and theorized within the broader context of social values, with a theoretical and philosophical framework for assessing the issue concerned. The book is interdisciplinary in nature, with each chapter integrating two or more disciplines to examine various controversial land and housing issues.

Download or read book Housing Home Ownership and Social Change in Hong Kong written by James Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume examines the issue that, in the last two decades, the housing system in Hong Kong has witnessed a slow but consistent transition from a tenure dominated by public rental housing to one dominated by private home ownership. This book seeks to explain the unique social organization of home ownership in contemporary Hong Kong. Specifically, the book deals with the genesis of home ownership from three areas: housing histories, family culture and capital gains from home transactions. It is agreed that extreme deprivations in housing conditions in early lives, a strong family culture of mutual help as well as unprecedented capital gains, all contribute towards explaining the complex nature of home ownership growth. In conclusion the book suggests that with China regaining sovereignty after July 1997, the social organization of home ownership will be further complicated by more internal migrations from other parts of China, making housing problems even more acute.

Download or read book Home Ownership Aspiration in Hong Kong written by Suk-Fun Josephine Wong and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Home Ownership Aspiration in Hong Kong: a Case Study on the Groups Aged 25-34" by Suk-fun, Josephine, Wong, 黃淑芬, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The aspiration for home ownership has widely spread across the society in Hong Kong since the Long Term Housing Strategy in 1987. The government is said to be fully determined to achieve the target of 70% home ownership rate on the assumption that home ownership is the aspiration of many in the community. Through asset appreciation during economic upturn, home owners enjoy substantial wealth accumulation. Income may be generated when trading up or down the property in the housing market. Home ownership is said to foster social and political stability, and also helps families to provide future financial security. However, house price has been dropped sharply in the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis that induces "negative equity" for many home owners in the society. Their home value has depreciated to the lowest and they experience substantial wealth depreciation. Many owners blame for the government's home ownership policy. Finally, the government determines to reposition the housing policy and pledges to provide affordable public rental housing units for those in genuine need and adopted a free market strategy to let the housing market goes freely according to the demand and supply mechanism. With the booming of economic situation during the past five years, the aspirations for home ownership has been coming back again in the society, especially for the young people who are able to buy a flat under the current high house price and lack of suitable housing units in the housing market. Under this socio-economic background, this study aims at studying the home ownership aspiration of the young people. The study will be start from library research of relevant literature and papers about home ownership. After reviewing the development of home ownership policy in Hong Kong, a brief survey will be taken to conclude if the young people are aspired to become home owners. There are many socio-economic factors like age, martial status, income level, availability of suitable housing, house price, etc. that would affect the choice of their housing tenure. What factors influence the young people's choice of housing tenure most is rather complicated. The housing choice that young people made varies throughout their lives depending on different social, economic and political background. Indeed, government policy is always hinged on the public's housing aspirations and housing affordability. The formulation of home ownership policy should balance the interests of all stakeholders and ensure a healthy and sustainable development of housing market. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4834366 Subjects: Home ownership - China - Hong Kong

Download or read book Urban Development in Hong Kong in the 1990s written by Lai-har Chiu (Rebecca) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To Study the Social Implications of Home Ownership in Hong Kong written by Siu-Wai Chan and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "To Study the Social Implications of Home Ownership in Hong Kong" by Siu-wai, Chan, 陳小惠, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Home ownership has been recognized by many academic researchers as the preferable tenure compared with renting. As extolled by many policy decision makers, the benefits of home owning against renting received substantial benefits which has tangible constructive profitable impacts such as capital appreciation and intangible benefits such as life contentment, social stability, security of tenure, raised self-esteem, sense of belongings, civic participation, improved physical health and better child outcomes. In fact, few studies havebeen conducted in a Chinese society whether these perceived benefits are also confessed by home owners or potential buyers. Given the strong empirical studies in Western countries, it gives particular interest to explore further and undertake research pertaining to social benefits of home ownership in Hong Kong to ascertain the benefits derived. In Hong Kong, home ownership was promoted by the government since the Long Term Housing Strategy in 1987. However, government had re-positioned its home ownership policy after the Asian Financial Crisisin 1997.Government clarified that the housing objectives would focus on provision of public rental housing to low income group and at the same time minimize its intervention in the private property market by maintaining adequate land supply to sustain an unprejudiced and steady operating atmosphere in the private property market. In fact, the housing policy was shifted from public-led to market-led approach. The Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands released a Statement on Housing Policy with nine measures were introduced to stablilize the housing market including suspension of production and sale of HOS flats indefinitely and sale of government land can only be applied through the application list. As such, people's aspiration for home ownership was destructed due to shortage of housing supply and the aggregate demand for home ownership had pushed up the housing price which falls outside most people's affordability. This paper attempts to explore if social implications of home ownership would have impact on one's willingness to become home owner by comparison between two target groups of respondents including home owner and renter. The result of the survey and individual interview indicate that home ownership not only brings individual benefits to home owners or potential buyers such as personal fulfillment, wealth accumulation and life satisfaction but also generates societal benefits of maintaining stability, supportive to government and strengthening sense of belonging to the society. It is worthwhile and justified for the Hong Kong Government to accord top priority to materialize people's desire for home ownership of its spillover individual and social benefits. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5334540 Subjects: Home ownership - Social aspects - China - Hong Kong