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HARP-667 |
Title: |
Private Rental Housing in Hong Kong |
Source: |
Housing Studies, Vol. 17, No. 5, 721-740, 2002 |
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Year: |
2002 |
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Keywords: |
China/Chinese, economic, social, and cultural rights, right to housing, housing, standard of living, Hong Kong |
Abstract: |
This paper examines selected aspects of housing policy and its influence on private rental housing in Hong Kong. Its ambitions are modest, in part because so little research has been conducted on the sector, as a consequence of the small size of the sector as well as the concentration of socio-political, economic and policy analyses on the other major housing sectors, namely public renting and home ownership. It is argued that a fundamental function of private renting, to provide a functional substitute and counter-balance to distortions in the market for private home ownership, has been systematically undermined in Hong Kong. The government’s ideology of home ownership has also functioned to transfer lower middle-income families into the owner occupied sector. |
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Keywords: China/Chinese, cultural rights, economic, Hong Kong, housing, right to housing, social, standard of living