Homeownership in Hong Kong
Title | Homeownership in Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | Chung-kin Tsang |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2021-05-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000395383 |
This book studies the cultural framework of the connections between homeownership and social stability in Hong Kong. In the post-war period, homeownership became the most preferable housing choice in developed societies, such as Australia, Britain, Japan, Spain, and the United States. In the financialization era, its proliferation aggregated enormous wealth and debt in the housing and mortgage markets, affecting social stability by creating inequality and housing unaffordability. Hong Kong is the most extreme example of this among developed societies – in recent years, the city has made international headlines both for its housing problem and its social instability. By studying the history of homeownership in Hong Kong over a period of four decades, Chung-kin Tsang proposes that homeownership is inseparable from the social imagination of the future, conceptualizing this framework as "hope mechanism". This perspective helps trace the connections between ‘House Buying’ as a hope mechanism – one which is central to subject formation, life goals, and temporal mapping for socially shared life planning – and social stability. Given its unique approach, specifically its use of "hope" as an analytical category, this book will prove to be a useful resource for scholars in economic culture and financialization, and Asian Studies, especially those working on the cultural, sociopolitical, and economic history of Hong Kong.
Housing, Home Ownership and Social Change in Hong Kong
Title | Housing, Home Ownership and Social Change in Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | James Lee |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2019-07-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429803427 |
First published in 1999, this volume examines the issue that, in the last two decades, the housing system in Hong Kong has witnessed a slow but consistent transition from a tenure dominated by public rental housing to one dominated by private home ownership. This book seeks to explain the unique social organization of home ownership in contemporary Hong Kong. Specifically, the book deals with the genesis of home ownership from three areas: housing histories, family culture and capital gains from home transactions. It is agreed that extreme deprivations in housing conditions in early lives, a strong family culture of mutual help as well as unprecedented capital gains, all contribute towards explaining the complex nature of home ownership growth. In conclusion the book suggests that with China regaining sovereignty after July 1997, the social organization of home ownership will be further complicated by more internal migrations from other parts of China, making housing problems even more acute.
Housing in Hong Kong
Title | Housing in Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | E. G. Pryor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Housing, Home Ownership and Social Change in Hong Kong
Title | Housing, Home Ownership and Social Change in Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | James Lee |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2020-04-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138340626 |
First published in 1999, this volume examines the issue that, in the last two decades, the housing system in Hong Kong has witnessed a slow but consistent transition from a tenure dominated by public rental housing to one dominated by private home ownership. This book seeks to explain the unique social organization of home ownership in contemporary Hong Kong. Specifically, the book deals with the genesis of home ownership from three areas: housing histories, family culture and capital gains from home transactions. It is agreed that extreme deprivations in housing conditions in early lives, a strong family culture of mutual help as well as unprecedented capital gains, all contribute towards explaining the complex nature of home ownership growth. In conclusion the book suggests that with China regaining sovereignty after July 1997, the social organization of home ownership will be further complicated by more internal migrations from other parts of China, making housing problems even more acute.
Hong Kong's Housing Policy
Title | Hong Kong's Housing Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Yung |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
This book examines housing policy in Hong Kong using a new and unique interdisciplinary approach - combining the philosophical discussion on social justice with policy and housing studies. It considers both Western and Chinese concepts of social justice, and investigates the role of social justice in a public policy such as housing. As a philosophical treatise on social administration, the book will be of interest to philosophy, public administration, and housing studies academics and students of all countries. Since Hong Kong represents a very special case with massive governmental intervention into the housing market, housing professionals and policy makers will find the analysis of Hong Kong's housing policy useful. The author completed her PhD at the School for Policy Studies of the University of Bristol, specializing in housing policy. Previously she taught and conducted research in the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the City University of Hong Kong. She is now working for the Hong Kong government.
A Study of Micro Units and Homeownership in Hong Kong Private Housing Market
Title | A Study of Micro Units and Homeownership in Hong Kong Private Housing Market PDF eBook |
Author | 馮源愛 |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Home ownership |
ISBN |
Evolution of Hong Kong's Public Housing
Title | Evolution of Hong Kong's Public Housing PDF eBook |
Author | Hong Kong. Hong Kong Housing Authority |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Public housing |
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