Public Housing and Unemployment: Skills and Spatial Mismatch in Postindustrial Hong Kong

Public Housing and Unemployment: Skills and Spatial Mismatch in Postindustrial Hong Kong

The impact of living in public rental housing on employment has been the subject of much debate internationally. Theory suggests that restrictions on residential mobility, neighborhood effects, and the place-based housing subsidy itself contribute to the higher rates of unemployment often observed among public housing tenants. However, recent evidence from Europe and Australia show that when pr...

MODELING AND SIMULATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING CONSTRUCTION IN HONG KONG Jonathan

Hong Kong possesses one of the world’s largest public housing stocks which provide accommodation for 3.1 million people. To meet the growing need for public housing, the government has committed to produce 50,000 public flat units (plus 35,000 units from private developers) a year as its long term housing policy. To meet this production target, contractors are facing with the challenge to furth...

THE HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY Memorandum for the Housing Authority Profile of Households in Public Housing PURPOSE

Housing Vacancy and Rental Adjustment: Evidence from Hong Kong

The traditional rental adjustment equation is ̄ awed in that the equilibrium paths for the adjustm ent of rents and vacancy rates cannot hold simultaneously over time. This paper suggests a two-equation model of rental adjustm ents based on adaptive expectation s rather than the single-equation model presen ted in the traditional literatu re, and provides empirical tests. Annual data from the ho...

Heritage Conservationin Hong kong (Policy and Planning Context Review)

Since the enactment of the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance in 1971 and the establishment of Antiquities and Monuments Office in 1976, the Hong Kong Government has set up several institutions with particular ordinances and schemes for Heritage Conservation. With the set-up of government initiatives, yet the protection of physical and cultural heritage is still limited due to the ambiguity of...