Immediate Actions to Resolve Hong Kong's Housing Conundrum: Cut the Red Tape Now!
Immediate Actions to Resolve Hong Kong's Housing Conundrum: Cut the Red Tape Now!
Our Hong Kong Foundation (OHKF) published its latest Land & Housing Policy Research Report, Immediate Actions to Resolve Hong Kong's Housing Conundrum: Cut the Red Tape Now!
This report urges the Hong Kong SAR Government (Government) to seize the opportunity to dismantle the barriers to land and housing supply, by addressing the three major pain points of cumbersome vetting and approval process, civil service inefficiency and a lack of social consensus. Correspondingly, this report proposes three major recommendation directions, namely Speed Up, Efficiency Up and Mass Up, covering 23 detailed recommendations, with the goal of closing the housing gap in the short term and shorten the waiting time for public housing.
In order to solve the problem of cumbersome and lengthy development approval process, this report synthesizes the professional opinions of various parties to make recommendations that cover the whole process of land and housing development, from upstream to downstream.
Large-scale development projects, such as reclamation and New Development Areas (NDAs), generally take 14 years or more from preliminary planning to the first batch of spade-ready land supply. We propose to simplify and consolidate public engagement under various ordinances, leverage on market forces to accelerate land assembly, commence detailed design, land resumption and site formation in all phases in parallel, and proceed with reclamation works and town planning procedure for superstructure developments simultaneously.
Apart from the large-scale development projects implemented by the Government, private housing developments mainly come from rezoning of agricultural land, Comprehensive Development Areas (CDAs) and urban redevelopment, which often take more than 10 years to develop. We propose to enhance the town planning procedure, simplify land leases, accelerate the lease modification procedure, divide CDAs into smaller sites and establish clear approval criteria for Master Layout Plan (MLP), and strengthen the functions of the Development Project Facilitation Office (DPFO).
Also, outside of the large-scale development project boundaries, the Government develops public housing mainly through rezoning and redevelopment of aged estates, which often take more than 10 years from preliminary planning to completion. We propose that the related departments should balance relevant feedbacks with professional judgement, make good use of market forces to enhance development efficiency, and establish a “one-stop” platform to disclose the progress of each public housing project.
Our Hong Kong Foundation (OHKF) published its latest Land & Housing Policy Research Report, Immediate Actions to Resolve Hong Kong's Housing Conundrum: Cut the Red Tape Now!
This report urges the Hong Kong SAR Government (Government) to seize the opportunity to dismantle the barriers to land and housing supply, by addressing the three major pain points of cumbersome vetting and approval process, civil service inefficiency and a lack of social consensus. Correspondingly, this report proposes three major recommendation directions, namely Speed Up, Efficiency Up and Mass Up, covering 23 detailed recommendations, with the goal of closing the housing gap in the short term and shorten the waiting time for public housing.
In order to solve the problem of cumbersome and lengthy development approval process, this report synthesizes the professional opinions of various parties to make recommendations that cover the whole process of land and housing development, from upstream to downstream.
Large-scale development projects, such as reclamation and New Development Areas (NDAs), generally take 14 years or more from preliminary planning to the first batch of spade-ready land supply. We propose to simplify and consolidate public engagement under various ordinances, leverage on market forces to accelerate land assembly, commence detailed design, land resumption and site formation in all phases in parallel, and proceed with reclamation works and town planning procedure for superstructure developments simultaneously.
Apart from the large-scale development projects implemented by the Government, private housing developments mainly come from rezoning of agricultural land, Comprehensive Development Areas (CDAs) and urban redevelopment, which often take more than 10 years to develop. We propose to enhance the town planning procedure, simplify land leases, accelerate the lease modification procedure, divide CDAs into smaller sites and establish clear approval criteria for Master Layout Plan (MLP), and strengthen the functions of the Development Project Facilitation Office (DPFO).
Also, outside of the large-scale development project boundaries, the Government develops public housing mainly through rezoning and redevelopment of aged estates, which often take more than 10 years from preliminary planning to completion. We propose that the related departments should balance relevant feedbacks with professional judgement, make good use of market forces to enhance development efficiency, and establish a “one-stop” platform to disclose the progress of each public housing project.
