2005
DOI: 10.1080/00420980500380386
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Shifts along the Decommodification-Commodification Continuum: Housing Delivery and State Accumulation in Hong Kong

Abstract: This paper engages with the discourse about commodification of housing in an Asian context and presents a methodology to explore shifts in the delivery of housing along the decommodification -commodification continuum. It reviews the extent to which the Hong Kong state has articulated an understanding of a continuum through its actions in the public and private housing sectors, and how it has acted developmentally in manipulating shifts along the continuum. It is found that, although Hong Kong had a large squa… Show more

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“…Interestingly, the element of choice provided in the renewal programme is also important, whereby residents can continue to live in the same neighbourhood or choose another location (Lau, 1998). In addition to similar factors about attitudes towards and the quality of high-rise developments, in the case of Hong Kong, the success of resettlement programmes from the 1950s to the 1980s may also have been due to the poor conditions in the squatter settlements they replaced; the fact that rehousing rights were for a long time attached to occupancy of squatter huts caused squatter settlements to continue to expand for some time after resettlement began (la Grange & Pretorius, 2005;Yeung & Wong, 2003).…”
Section: Recent Studies Of Restructuring and Relocationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Interestingly, the element of choice provided in the renewal programme is also important, whereby residents can continue to live in the same neighbourhood or choose another location (Lau, 1998). In addition to similar factors about attitudes towards and the quality of high-rise developments, in the case of Hong Kong, the success of resettlement programmes from the 1950s to the 1980s may also have been due to the poor conditions in the squatter settlements they replaced; the fact that rehousing rights were for a long time attached to occupancy of squatter huts caused squatter settlements to continue to expand for some time after resettlement began (la Grange & Pretorius, 2005;Yeung & Wong, 2003).…”
Section: Recent Studies Of Restructuring and Relocationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is a crowded and polluted city (La Grange & Pretorius, 2005). The city mainly relies on the service or tertiary industry, which requires flexible labour (Meng, 2000;Sit, 2004).…”
Section: Contexts Of Hong Kong Shanghai and Tianjinmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The government was under great pressure to adopt an intervention policy in public housing supply in order to stabilize house prices. This stood in stark contrast to the privatization policy that began in the early 1980s when the promotion of private homeownership was seen as a way to trim government intervention in housing (La Grange and Pretorius, 2005). Even with 60% depreciation in asset value after the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the recent impact of the 2008 world financial tsunami, homeownership is still unaffordable for many and house prices are never stable.…”
Section: A Restructuring Housing Systemmentioning
confidence: 99%