Behind the gleaming skyscrapers and multimillion-dollar homes that have made this city the world's most expensive property market lies a far less attractive parallel reality: one of the world's seemingly most intractable housing crises.
The cause of the problem, according to the city's government, is relatively simple: a chronic lack of supply that is unable to meet the demand of more than 7 million residents crammed into what are already some of the world's most densely populated neighborhoods.
As Paul Zimmerman, a councilor in Hong Kong's southern district and co-founder of the urban-planning advocacy group Designing Hong Kong, put it:"Now the question is: what to do with them?"The answer to that question may be less straightforward than it at first seems.world's longest mask mandate Public housing plans are usually subject to years of red tape, but in the case of the quarantine camps the government managed to suddenly"find" around 80 hectares of land and build 40,000 pre-fabricated metal units in a matter of months.
He sees the vacant camps as offering a litmus test of the government's determination to act and has called for the units to be repurposed into social housing, arguing that it would be"very embarrassed if those containers are left vacant or wasted."
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