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    Housing Policies in Hong Kong, China and the People’s Republic of China

    Li, Victor Jing | April 2016
    Abstract
    This paper analyzes the housing markets and housing policies in Hong Kong, China and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Both markets face housing affordability problems due to limited land supply, for which the solutions vary considerably. Hong Kong, China has adopted a railway and property development model, which involves close collaboration between the government and property developers in compact urban areas, while leaving most greenbelts and surrounding islands underdeveloped. Although the PRC has pledged to maintain a minimum level of basic farmland to feed its large population, this target has often been compromised due to local governments’ fiscal constraints and growth concerns. The targets and outcomes of housing policies in both markets are in line with their social welfare systems. Hong Kong, China favors the elderly and the poor, thus housing policies tend to support the lower-income band. The PRC focuses on the young and the rich; hence, most regulative housing policies for the higher-income band have turned out to be unsuccessful. Hong Kong, China also aims to assist public housing tenants to become private homeowners, but its policies help provide housing subsidies, a less effective measure to access owner-occupied housing. On the contrary, the success of Housing Provident Fund in providing mortgage interest rate reduction, which is a more effective measure to access owner-occupied housing, accounts for the high homeownership rate in the PRC
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    Li, Victor Jing. 2016. Housing Policies in Hong Kong, China and the People’s Republic of China. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6500.
    Keywords
    Cultural Development
    Development Economics
    Development Issues
    Financial Sector Development
    Infrastructure Development
    Urban Development Finance
    Financing
    Financial System
    Financial Sector Reform
    Financial Institution
    Bank Financing
    Rural planning
    Economic development
    Economic indicators
    Standard of living
    Development projects
    Development policy
    Housing projects
    Development models
    Social reform
    Urban planning
    Public Borrowing
    Credit Policy
    Banks
    Real estate development
    Housing development
    Community banks
    Mortgage banks
    Housing policy
    Tax administration and procedure
    Real property and taxation
    Property tax
    Credit control
    Banks and banking
    Title companies
    Tax deductions
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    Li, Victor Jing
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