Document Type
Paper Series
Publication Date
2004
No.
150
Abstract
This paper finds evidence that a public housing privatization program produced adverse effects on housing transactions and the economy in Hong Kong. A scheme announced in December 1997, offering tenants an opportunity to buy their units at deeply discounted prices, reduced public housing tenants’ bids for private homes and adversely affected home transactions. This effect is more pronounced than the effects of the Asian Financial Crisis. An effect on housing prices is also indirectly demonstrated though a demonstration that a structural break in the housing price relationship occurred at the time the privatization program is introduced. Declines in housing prices further eroded employment and set off a vicious circle.
Recommended Citation
Ho, L. S., & Wong, W. C. G. (2004).Privatization of public housing: Did it cause the 1998 recession in Hong Kong? (CPPS Working Paper Series No.150). Retrieved from Lingnan University website: http://commons.ln.edu.hk/cppswp/68/
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Comments
CPPS Working Paper Series No.150 (Jul 04)