Land Administration and Practice in Hong Kong
By Roger Nissim
Having lived in Hong Kong for many years, I have friends who are caught up in the high housing prices of Hong Kong. Criticisms are plenty in a city with one of the worlds highest population densities, but solutions are scarce. When it seems everyone’s a critic, it’s important to understand why these issues exist in the first place.
From underused brownfield sites, to reclamation policies, and the right for indigenous male villagers to build free homes, this book explains it all. Every major existing policy that is seen to hinder the cooling of housing prices is covered from the British occupation of Hong Kong in 1841 to the present day.
Though some solutions are proposed, it remains largely an academic account of the historical development of land use policy in Hong Kong. If you’re a critic of the government’s land administration practices and would like to write an angry letter, it helps to understand more from this book published by the Hong Kong University Press.
