Hong Kong land for Hong Kong people : fixing the failures of our housing policy

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Section I: Hong Kong Housing Policies over the Years -- 1. Time to Count the Social Cost of Uniting a People Divided -- 2. Setting the Scene: An Overview of Long-Term Housing Strategies in Hong Kong -- 3. Supply and Demand Factors in Housing -- Section II: People, Public Housing, and Serfdom -- 4. On the Nature of Public Sector Housing Policies in Hong Kong -- 5. Comparing Public Sector Housing Policies in Hong Kong and Singapore -- 6. Equal Yet Unequal: The Occupants of Private and Public Housing Units -- 7. The Inequity of Small Housing Units -- 8. Small Housing Units and High Property Prices -- 9. On Public Housing Policy and Social Justice -- 10. Economic and Social Consequences of Public Housing Policies -- 11. Demand for Homeownership and the Housing Ladder -- 12. How to Warm Up the HOS Secondary Market -- 13. Divorce, Remarriage, and the Long-Term Housing Strategy -- 14. Divorce, Inequality, Poverty, and the Vanishing Middle Class -- Section III: The Wider Economic Influences on Housing Policies -- 15. The Impact of Global Economic Forces on Housing in Hong Kong -- 16. The Linked Rate, Domestic Stability, and Dual Integration -- 17. Reasons for Keeping the Linked Rate -- 18. Why Speculation Is Not a Bad Thing -- 19. Speculators, Property Agents, and the Spreading of Risk in the Presale Housing Market -- 20. How the Application List System Became the Winner's Curse -- Section IV: The Political Economy of Land Use -- 21. Is There a High Land-Price Policy in Hong Kong? -- 22. Lima's Other Path, Tsoi Yuen Village, and the Northeast New Territories -- 23. Stranded between Singapore's Way and Lima's Other Path -- 24. Subsidized Housing and Stability: Lessons for China -- 25. Diversity and Occasional Anarchy: Land, People, and Growth.