scholarly journals The spatial pattern of premature mortality in Hong Kong: How does it relate to public housing?

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 1211-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Kandt ◽  
Shu-Sen Chang ◽  
Paul Yip ◽  
Ricky Burdett
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Geographic Variations ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Fully Bayesian

Research into understanding the relationship between access to housing, health and wellbeing in cities has yielded mixed evidence to date and has been limited to case studies from Western countries. Many studies appear to highlight the negative effects of public housing in influencing the health of its residents. Current trends in the urban housing markets in cities of advanced Asian economies and debates surrounding the role of government in providing housing underscore the need for more focused research into housing and health. In this paper, we investigate Hong Kong as an example of a thriving Asian city by exploring and comparing the intra-urban geographies of premature mortality and public housing provision in the city. Using a fully Bayesian spatial structural model, we estimate associations between public housing provision and different types of premature mortality. We find significant geographic variations in premature mortality within Hong Kong during the five-year period 2005–2009, with positive associations between the residents of public housing and premature mortality risk. But the associations attenuate or are even reversed for premature mortality of injuries and non-communicable diseases after controlling for local deprivation, housing instability, access to local amenities and other neighbourhood characteristics. The results indicate that public housing may have a protective effect on community health, which contradicts the findings of similar studies carried out in Western cities. We suggest reasons why the association between public housing and health differs in Hong Kong and discuss the implications for housing policy in Hong Kong and other Asian cities.

Public housing and educational attainment in Asia's global city: An empirical study of Hong Kong

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 1867-1894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fox Zhiyong Hu ◽  
Keelee Chou
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Neighborhood Environment ◽  
Housing Sector ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, the relationship between public housing and children's educational attainment has been a hotly debated topic in urban housing and education policy studies. Most studies on the subject have been based on experiences in western cities characterized by a diminishing and residualized public housing sector. It remains unknown whether the same mechanisms identified in the extant literature can be applied to make sense of the situation in alternative social and housing contexts. This study assesses the impact of public housing residence on the educational achievement of children in Hong Kong within a stable and resilient public housing sector. A propensity score matching estimation reveals that children aged 19–22 living in public housing are less likely to study for a degree in a local university and more likely to be not in employment, education or training than their private housing counterparts. Given the favorable physical and neighborhood environment characterizing public housing in Hong Kong, this negative relationship tends to suggest an account in connection with the restricted access to high-performing schools for public housing children. The paper challenges the perceived notion about the unambiguously positive social impact of public housing scheme in the context of Hong Kong. The case study points to the need for a place-specific analysis of the variegated mechanisms linking public housing with children's education. It highlights the practical implications for a closer integration of public housing and public school policies in Hong Kong.

Third sector housing in 21st-century Hong Kong: opportunities and challenges1

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-358
Author(s):  
Betty Yung ◽  
Alex Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Start Ups

Hong Kong has a large public housing sector that shows strong resilience. Given the approximate half‐half public‐private housing divide in Hong Kong, officials, housing advocates and the general public envisage housing provision, problems and remedies within the ‘rigid’ framework of private and public housing. Social innovation examples of third sector housing as start-ups in ‘social housing’ have emerged in the early 21st century in Hong Kong, thereby forming a ‘new’ model in housing delivery amidst the public‐private binary housing market. This study focuses on the gap filled by third sector housing in Hong Kong through serving as a complement to the private and public housing sectors in meeting unsatisfied general housing needs and as a supplement to both sectors in catering for neglected specialist housing needs. The exact future trajectory of third sector housing development will highly depend on the synergy of different stakeholders in public, private and third sectors as well as the common citizens in its nurturance.

scholarly journals Housing System and Urbanization in the People’s Republic of China

2019 ◽  
pp. 221-255
Author(s):  
Jie Chen
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Welfare

This chapter provides a contextualized interpretation of the transformation of housing regimes in urban China since the abolition of the urban welfare housing system in 1998. Particular attention is given to the impacts of public housing provision on China’s urbanization mode. The employment of the widely used state-market-family model is supplemented by contextualization. A close examination of the case of Public Rental Housing (PRH) in Shanghai helps to show that the recent revival of public housing in Chinese cities is mostly driven by economic growth motives. Despite that the Chinese urban housing regime up to now could be located within the context of other Asian countries’ ‘productivist’ welfare regimes, this chapter however discerns mixed evidence that it is recently shifting towards a ‘developmentalist’ regime. This investigation offers multifaceted insights on the complexity of the social-economic dynamics in post-reform urban China.

From Intervention to Privatisation: The Changing Public Housing Policy in Hong Kong

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Stanley C. W. Yeung ◽  
Francis K. W. Wong ◽  
Eddie C. M. Hui
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Housing Policy

scholarly journals Sustainable governance in forestry and nature protection

2014 ◽  
pp. 113-140
Author(s):  
Dragan Nonic ◽  
Mersudin Avdibegovic ◽  
Jelena Nedeljkovic ◽  
Aleksandar Radosavljevic ◽  
Nenad Rankovic
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Countries In Transition ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
And Control

At the global level, due to the negative effects of over-exploitation of natural resources, numerous processes and initiatives for their conservation and sustainable governance have started. The beginning of the transition process, as well as political and economic changes that followed in the countries in transition, were in line with the new orientation of the international forest and nature protection policy. The transition process has caused, among other things, a redefinition of the role of government in managing natural resources. This meant a shift from ?government? to ?governance? concept. This concept refers to the change from the classical approach of ?command and control? to active participation of all involved parties and establishing rules for the division of responsibilities and benefits. The aim of the paper is to identify, analyze and systematise the current concepts of sustainable governance in forestry and nature protection, their characteristics and the principles on which they are based, with a main purpose of preparation of a research platform for more detailed research in this area. The paper gives recommendations for the application of the principles of governance in forestry and nature protection, as well as recommendations for future research in this area.

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