‘Chase your dreams, not public housing,’ John Lee tells young Hongkongers
- City leader stresses that young people may regret their choices and limit their development by focusing on subsidised housing flats
Young Hongkongers should chase their dreams, not public housing, the city’s leader has urged amid a trend of residents applying for subsidised flats as soon as they can or who curb their aspirations to meet the requirements.
“If you waste your possibilities and your dreams for a public housing unit, I believe that [young] people will regret it. For a lot of people, their success today is created from their own struggle and their own hard work,” Lee said.
“The final result of what they achieve [with hard work] is better than what they imagined in the first place.”
Lee added that, rather than working hard for better earnings, some young people had deliberately adjusted their income to meet the eligibility criteria of subsidised public housing, calling it an “inappropriate” move.
