probably so, but since the early 1980s, the government started to change its housing strategy from providing low cost, cheap rent flats (poor quality units with high maintenance costs & low rental revenues) to creating high cost housing with high rents or purchase prices...also, through administrative measures, low-income earners were pushed out of central urban districts to remote areass & new towns to accomodate expansion of the financial, service, and commercial sectors...in other words, a large profit-oriented public housing redevelopment and urban renewal scheme unresponsive to the needs of the poorest groups...
HK housing authority has not expanded public housing, in fact, the opposite has occurred...the registered waiting list is over 150,000 persons for fewer than 15,000 units available each year...rather than make public rental housing available (or even provide rental subsidies), the government has built flats which it sells for 60-70% of the market price...moreover, an increasing proportion of the housing authority's existing dwellings are allocated for public sale...Michael Hoover