Fifty Years of Public Housing in Hong Kong: A Golden Jubilee Review and Appraisal – Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CUHK

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Fifty Years of Public Housing in Hong Kong: A Golden Jubilee Review and Appraisal

Edited by Yue-man YEUNG and Timothy Ka-ying WONG
English/21.5 x 14 cm/hardback/xxi + 487 pages/
published in December 2003
ISBN 962-441-558-7; list price: US$55.00 (HK$330.00)

The year 2003 marks the golden jubilee of the development of public housing in Hong Kong from its inception following the squatter fire in Shek Kip Mei in 1953. This book documents, reviews and analyses the salient trends in the development of public housing in its myriad forms and over time.

A collaborative project between the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, it is a major study of public housing in Hong Kong.