Public housing policies in Hong Kong: the city as a growth machine

Hong Kong baptist University - Pr Patrick le Galès. 2023.

Topics in comparative and global politics

The observation is simple. In Hong Kong, housing is expensive and exiguous. Between subdivided decrepit social housing apartments and luxurious skyscrapers, the real estate reality of Hong Kong seems ambivalent. The backstage is much more complex than at first sight. Hong Kong's apartment prices are among the most expensive in the world, and the quality of housing is low. The private sector housing stock rents out small, dilapidated apartments to poor people, with an average of 8/m² per person. This lack of space shows the level of population density in Hong Kong, which at first glance is facing a crisis of overcrowding. The government's response to the exceptional situation oscillates between a voluntarist policy and the search for profitability with the satisfaction of economic actors. This demographic crisis would be more of a housing crisis, calling into question the public policies of the Hong Kong government.

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