Roughly 50% of the Hong Kong population live in public rental flats or subsidized housing. Hence, the remaining 50% are potential buyers of private residential property for personal use. Public and subsidized h...

The public housing in Hong Kong has gone through a number of transitional stages during the past fifty years. In the 1950 to 1960, public housing was only provided as Emergency Housing/shelter, to resettle the ...

The Government ensures that all those who cannot afford private rental accommodation have access to subsidized  housing. Rents are set at affordable levels. During the year, new legislation was passed to provid...

A  graphic presentation of statics of Hong Kong  Housing Authority 2011 based on population, land domestic households, average domestic household size, stock of permanent residential flats and production of per...

The housing sector in Bangkok has been described as a model for other fast-growing Asian cities, because of the shift by the private sector into low-cost housing, initially row houses, later apartments. This ar...

Download Document Document Type: General Publish Date: 2008 Primary Author: Un Habitat Edited By: Suneela Farooqi Published By: UN – Habitat The report examines a whole range of major instrum...