Identifying housing concerns from newspaper articles study
1, 1. Hopeless in Hong Kong: why the sordid state of housing can never be
fixed in Asia’s world city, SCMP.
(url
address: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013672/hopeless-hong-kong-why-sordid-state-housing-can-never-be)
“Yonden Lhatoo struggles to
understand how the government can officially admit that property prices are out
of control, but its priority is the extradition bill and a completely
unnecessary political crisis of its own making”.
Housing
concern: Unwillingness of the HK government to cope with runaway property
prices.
2. Hong
Kong’s third-quarter housing supply shrinks, foiling policymakers’ attempt to
improve affordability for first-time buyers, SCMP
(url
address: https://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/3034518/hong-kongs-private-housing-supply-drops-third-quarter)
“Hong Kong’s
property developers completed building homes at a slower pace during the third
quarter, exacerbating the housing shortage that had made the city the world’s
most expensive urban centre to live in”
Housing concern: Housing shortage gets worse due to shrinking housing
supply.
3. Young
adults in Hong Kong public housing less happy than their counterparts in
private flats, new survey finds. SCMP
(url
address: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3041316/young-adults-hong-kong-public-housing-less-happy-their)
“Young people in Hong Kong are unhappy about the amount
of control they have over life, their family’s financial situation, and
confidence about the future while living in both public and private housing, a
new study has found, although those in the latter group are comparatively
happier.
A
survey by Baptist University also rated North district as the happiest of the
city’s 18 districts, with Sham Shui Po the unhappiest.
Researchers
questioned 1,851 young adults aged between 17 and 23, and identified key
factors associated with happiness in youngsters.
“We
found that housing made a difference in terms of subjective well-being,” said
Professor Adrian Bailey, dean of the university’s faculty of social sciences
who led the study.
“Policy
can’t be one size fits all. [You] got to look at the type of housing situation
that the youth are in...”;
Housing
concern: Low subjective well-being of young adults with poor housing status.
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