Hong Kong’s housing crisis long blamed on land shortage, but are other factors at play?


By Joyce NgGigi Choy

In the second of a three-part series on Hong Kong’s housing crisis, the Post looks at the part played by the MTR Corporation and Urban Renewal Authority in providing homes for Hongkongers. Read part one here.

Joanna Wong remembers the excitement of being among the first residents to move into Lohas Park, a seafront private estate in Tseung Kwan O in 2009.

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