Letters | Carrie Lam squandered the chance to use housing as a weapon of mass dispersal of youth grievances

Alex Lo’s “Both sides doing their bit to destroy HK” (August 10) makes me think of Oscar Wilde’s famous words and how apt they are for Hong Kong: “Yet each man kills the thing he loves … Some kill their love when they are young/ And some when they are old”.

The government is killing Hong Kong with its arrogance, incompetence and callousness towards the needy; the so-called pan-democrats with their irresponsible support of violence and foolishness in not even making a pretence of stopping the demonstrators’ attack on Beijing’s liaison office; the demonstrators with their rioting and attacks on the police; and the police with their actions on July 21 in Yuen Long.

If Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor had shown the same political will in tackling Hong Kong’s housing problem as she did with the extradition bill, she could have broken the hold that big property developers have over Hong Kong’s economy (“Hear the Housing Alarm”, August 10). Two months ago, housing could have been a weapon of mass dispersal of the youth’s grievances. Now it is all too late.