Why Hong Kong can’t solve housing problem with smaller flats Using shipping containers for cheap housing is innovative, but they are not the only option for providing transitional social housing.

"The most straightforward solution to Hong Kong's housing problem is to increase land supply, and build more public and private residential units," the state-run Xinhua News wrote in a September ...

Successive governments cite these issues as the major obstacles to solving the housing problem. Against this backdrop, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam and her administration embarked on the ...

The camps also raised the hackles of government critics who said their speedy and expensive construction gave the lie to the narrative that Hong Kong’s housing problem was simply unsolvable.

HONG KONG, July 25 ... scheme to build public housing on a farmland plot, and lent idle land to the government for building transitional housing - a temporary solution for people to improve ...

Housing officials ... the severity of the problem revealed when government-commissioned research was made public earlier this week. The study by the University of Hong Kong estimated that more ...

Hong Kong aims to eliminate subdivided flats by 2049, a target set in 2021 by China’s top official overseeing the city. Beijing sees the housing woes as a serious social problem that helped fuel ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Au’s world shrinks ... Beijing, which sees the city’s housing problems as a driver of the 2019 anti-government protests, wants the city to phase out subdivided units ...

Hong Kong authorities have said they will not extend a trial subsidy scheme for people waiting for public housing, despite ...

Hong Kong’s government will begin taking back a large chunk of an exclusive golf course near the border with mainland China to build much-needed public housing, a move that has provoked an ...

“All the members of the Hong Kong Golf Club understand the housing needs in Hong Kong ... completely peripheral, to the solution to this problem,” he added. “It’s symbolic.” ...