My Take | Lessons to be learned from Hong Kong's empty schools

In an extreme senior moment, I once unconsciously held my mobile phone in hand while searching all over my bedroom for it.
I wonder if our chief executive is doing the same.
Leung Chun-ying has been searching high and low for more land to redevelop and build more housing.
All the while, his administration is sitting on hectares of unused land currently occupied by 105 empty or abandoned schools scattered across the city.
Thanks to the Director of Audit, we now know that nearly half of 234 school premises vacated in recent years sit idle and decaying with no plan in place for redevelopment. The 105 vacant premises include 29 empty school lots still held by the Education Bureau that have not been returned to the government for alternative land uses.
Eight of the 29 school lots have not even been earmarked for any use. Three, forgotten for more than a decade, have been left to rot.
No doubt the Education Bureau bears substantial responsibility for this monumental neglect.