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Hong Kong conglomerate New World Development announced last month that it would donate 3 million square feet of its land reserves for public housing. Sun Hung Kai Properties, another Hong Kong ...
It attracts people’s attention,” says William Leung, 38, a self-proclaimed “public housing fanatic” and an avid photographer who recently published a photo book about Hong Kong’s estates.
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 ...
About 30% of Hong Kong’s population lives in public rental housing. Hong Kong’s government is seeking funding for the new island from the territory’s legislature and it’s likely to be ...
About a third of Hong Kong's 7.1 million population lives in public rental flats. When apartments bought with government subsidies are included, the figure rises to nearly half.
Hong Kong authorities have said they will not extend a trial subsidy scheme for people waiting for public housing, despite warnings from an NGO that ending the benefits would impose a financial ...
Hong Kong leader John Lee, who visited tenants in subdivided apartments in July, has pledged to boost the supply of land and housing. Climate experts, however, say bolder action on warming is needed.
The dispute over the course began in 2018, when Hong Kong’s government solicited public input on where to acquire land for public housing, and a few pro-democracy legislators raised the idea of ...
In Hong Kong, Asia’s bastion of free-market capitalism, some residents at public-housing projects drive around in BMWs and carry designer handbags. And therein lies a tale of social welfare gone ...
For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia's wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, like Leung Cho ...
Hong Kong has reduced the waiting time for public housing applicants with newborn babies in an effort to support birth rates in the city. Families with children born on or after Oct. 25 this year ...