Hong Kong urged to look at Singapore, Macau methods for housing migrant workers and reuse of quarantine centres

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Hong Kong should copy Singapore’s strategy of creating accommodation for overseas workers and convert disused quarantine centres into housing for an influx of labour to help ease the city’s manpower problems, a top economist has said.

Some experts on Wednesday warned of a “social time bomb” if the housing requirements of foreign workers were not properly tackled.