Housing

In terms of financing a place to live.

As someone who grew up in a place with the highest median multiple on the planet, this has always been a problem that has plagued me.

Links

• YouTube: Inside Hong Kong's cage homes | Vox
  • Hong Kong's government land management policy drive housing price up
• YouTube: How Singapore Solved Housing | PolyMatter
  • Singapore government's successful public housing policy, especially compared to Hong Kong
  • Strong authoritarian government yet not using its power only for political gains
• Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake (HN)
  • Analysis of why setting housing prices to rise like other investment tools creates an unsolvable problem
• Hong Kong, with the most expensive housing, asks: What to do with 40,000 empty quarantine units? | CNN
  • Hong Kong Government can't take a speedy approach to solve the housing crisis because of the potential loss in land revenue
  • The vacant quarantine units will test the government's determination to solve what they have acknowledged as an urgent crisis