Housing lessons from Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore

Asia's Developing Future

Asia and the Pacific are home to 4.3 billion people, and half the world’s urban population, with 120,000 people moving to cities every day, creating daily demand for 20,000 affordable homes. Some cities, where housing is scarce and costly because they don’t have enough land or they’re where the jobs are concentrated, find it hard to provide enough public housing for a continuously rising urban population. Hong Kong, China; the Republic of Korea; and Singapore have wrestled with this problem for decades. Read the transcript http://bit.ly/2goPbKh Read the original blog post https://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/2017/08/housing-policy-in-the-republic-of-korea/ About the authors Kyung-Hwan Kim is vice minister for land, infrastructure and transport, Republic of Korea Miseon Park is an associate research fellow, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements. Additional information is from the following From Slums to Sustainable Communities (https://www.habitat.org/sites/default/files/issue-paper.pdf) Tackling Affordability in Asia (https://urbanland.uli.org/economy-markets-trends/tackling-affordability-asia/) Waiting time to get into Hong Kong public housing shoots up a full year over past 12 months (http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/2070493/waiting-time-get-hong-kong-public-housing-shoots). Know more about ADBI’s research on housing in 2017 http://bit.ly/2x1WOJJ Know more about ADBI’s research on housing in 2016 http://bit.ly/2hYPM24 Read The Housing Challenge in Emerging Asia: Options and Solutions By Naoyuki Yoshino and Matthias Helble https://www.adb.org/publications/housing-challenge-emerging-asia-options-and-solutions