Editing Public housing (section)

=== Hong Kong ===
{{Main|Public housing in Hong Kong}} 	
[[File:HK Clague Garden Estate.jpg|thumbnail|[[Clague Garden Estate]], a public housing estate in [[Tsuen Wan]], Hong Kong|alt=]]

In Hong Kong, public housing is one of the major housing policies of the government. Nearly half of Hong Kong's 7.5&nbsp;million population lives in public housing.<ref name="census housing">[http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hong_kong_statistics/statistical_tables/index.jsp?charsetID=1&subjectID=1&tableID=160 Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department – Population by type of housing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614061640/http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hong_kong_statistics/statistical_tables/index.jsp?charsetID=1&subjectID=1&tableID=160 |date=14 June 2011 }} The government provides public housing through flats which are rented at a lower price than the market rate, and through the [[Home Ownership Scheme]], are sold at a lower price. The [[Hong Kong Housing Authority]] and the [[Hong Kong Housing Society]] build and administer these homes.</ref> The two main public housing providers are the [[Hong Kong Housing Authority|Housing Authority]] and the [[Hong Kong Housing Society|Housing Society]].

The most common types of public housing in Hong Kong are public rental housing (PRH) and subsidised sale flats produced under the [[Home Ownership Scheme]] (HOS). In 2016, approximately 31 per cent of Hong Kong households lived in PRH flats while 15 per cent resided in subsidised sale flats (of all types).<ref name="hklegco2016">{{cite web |title=Public housing |url=https://www.legco.gov.hk/research-publications/english/1617issh09-public-housing-20161122-e.pdf |website=Research Publications |publisher=Research Office, Information Services Division, Legislative Council Secretariat |date=22 November 2016 |access-date=19 February 2021 |archive-date=23 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423111815/https://www.legco.gov.hk/research-publications/english/1617issh09-public-housing-20161122-e.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

The origin of large-scale public housing in Hong Kong can be traced to the [[Resettlement area|resettlement programme]] launched by the Hong Kong government in the 1950s in response to the increasing prevalence of squatter settlements, which emerged as a result of a great influx of refugees following the [[Chinese Communist Revolution|Communist revolution in China]]. The squatter villages were considered unsafe as they were susceptible to disastrous fires, including [[Shek Kip Mei fire|a 1953 blaze in Shek Kip Mei]] that rendered over 50,000 people homeless overnight.<ref name="quietrevolution">{{cite news |last1=Wordie |first1=Jason |title=Public housing: HK's quiet revolution |work=Sunday Review |publisher=South China Morning Post |date=3 June 2001 |page=12}}</ref>

Large-scale resettlement estates were built throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In 1973, the government of [[Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch|Sir Murray MacLehose]] launched the Ten-Year Housing Programme, which aimed to provide the entire population with "satisfactory housing" within a decade. The government also launched the [[Home Ownership Scheme]] (HOS) in 1976 to enable lower-income households to purchase flats.<ref name="HKHAdevelopment">{{cite web |title=Public Housing Development |url=https://www.housingauthority.gov.hk/en/common/pdf/about-us/public-housing-heritage/public-housing-development/Timeline%28W3C%29_EN.pdf |publisher=Hong Kong Housing Authority |access-date=16 November 2021 |archive-date=19 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919171536/https://www.housingauthority.gov.hk/en/common/pdf/about-us/public-housing-heritage/public-housing-development/Timeline(W3C)_EN.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

Many public housing estates were built as part of [[New towns of Hong Kong|new town development programmes]]. During the 1980s, most of the earliest resettlement estates (from the 1950s and early 1960s) were also rebuilt to modern standards. Public housing remains a key concern of the Hong Kong Government, which plans to construct some 330,000 units between 2022 and 2032.<ref name="hkpolicyaddress2021">{{cite web |title=The Chief Executive's 2021 Policy Address |url=https://www.policyaddress.gov.hk/2021/eng/p81.html |publisher=Hong Kong Government |date=2021 |access-date=16 November 2021 |archive-date=16 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116033127/https://www.policyaddress.gov.hk/2021/eng/p81.html |url-status=live }}</ref>