The Society for Community Organisation releases its latest report on the need for rent control and increased public housing on Sunday. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
Hong Kong needs more public housing, rent controls, NGO says after survey on low-income residents’ struggles
- Report by advocacy group SoCO found that some people were paying twice as much per square foot for bed space as those paying for private flats
- ‘As such a developed society, it is quite unreasonable that we do not have rent controls,’ one SoCO organiser said
The Society for Community Organisation releases its latest report on the need for rent control and increased public housing on Sunday. Photo: K. Y. Cheng