There's some interesting graphs on there. They say 7% of land is residential. Do you know what percentage of that land is being used by the small house policy (with existing and likely-to-be-used in the future houses/land)? And what percentage of the population qualifies for these houses? And what percentage of the population lives in these houses?
Working as a teacher and reading students' essays on different local topics I find that they like to talk about the housing issue. They do bring up the one-way permit scheme, but rarely if never do they bring up the small house policy. I wonder if the younger generation is a bit ignorant about it and how it's hurting the overall housing situation in Hong Kong.
actually prices vary accordingly to remoteness of the actualy area, ie, a village 20 mins drive and 5 mins walk to main road will probably sell for HK$200k, but ding rights for a village only 10 mins walk to town centre of yuen long would sell for around HK$600k, also, it's also proven illegal to sell your 'ding rights' to commercial developers as shown in a landmark case a few years when the seller and developer were sent to prison for this illegal sale of 'ding rights', however, selling to a private individual is a grey area and there apparently no convictions so far
qing is not really chinese in a tradional sense, it's manchurian culture which is related to mongolian culture (they share the similar language and customs), i doubt an obscure and old law can be applied in hk now, but it will be interesting on how this saga concludes
Here's a gem... "Land rights are not discriminatory as they're not available to everyone"...
Male only toilets, without the presence of female toilets are therefore not discriminatory?
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...ecause-not-all