I refer to your report titled “ Lam hits back at C.Y. on plan to build flats ” (May 19). Judging from what Carrie Lam said, I definitely don’t feel she really wants to get rid of the housing problem. The waiting time for the allocation of public housing has increased to 5.8 years while housing prices in the private market are again on an uptrend after a minor adjustment due to the pandemic. When Lam was secretary for development, she once said subdivided flats had their value in society. Apparently, she just wants to avoid another controversy now, as building on the fringes of country parks may get her into trouble again and she is already perceived as more of a troublemaker than a troubleshooter. During her campaign for the top job, she said the government was something like a hot kitchen . In order to make the kitchen hotter, she introduced the extradition bill that subsequently led to social unrest and had the police fired more than 16,000 rounds of tear gas. Society ended up being deeply divided. However, she was completely directionless and clueless as to how to get society back to normal, until the central government later got her back on her feet. She is surely not welcomed by many, except perhaps Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen who is hugely indebted to her. Without Lam’s introduction of her ill-fated extradition bill, Tsai may have lost her presidential reelection bid pathetically, instead of winning it overwhelmingly. Carrie Lam can at best be an efficient manager, but definitely not a leader. Hopefully, she won’t still be seen occupying the top position in governance after June 30 next year. Ringo Yee, Tuen Mun