| Abstract | Over the past 40 years, the public housing programme has played an important role in Hong Kong's social and economic development. Although the ten year housing programme launched in 1972 did not fully achieve its objective, it represented a shift from a passive public housing policy of crisis management in nature to an active forwarding planning policy by which the Government sees the improvement of living conditions as a fundamental need to maintain Hong Kong's economic prosperity and social stability. By 1993 about three million people, half of Hong Kong's population, lived in subsidized public housing in some 874,000 flats in 236 estates throughout Hong Kong. |
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