The evolution of recent public housing governance reforms in Hong Kong, in particular a customerization strategy implemented at both the policy and management levels is reviewed in this article. A new tenant participation scheme, known as the "estate management advisory committee" is evaluated as a case study to illustrate the reconfiguration of public housing governance at the estate level. We explore whether customerization has increased customer power of the tenants and reduced managerial power of the public manager. It is argued that despite the customer-empowerment rhetoric, what has resulted is more a management-empowerment practice that serves largely to strengthen the role and power of housing managers. Thus, instead of resisting management reform that on the surface seems to cut into their traditional power, public housing managers have embraced the reform that they perceive better to facilitate their management functions in the changing socio-political circumstances.
Customerizing the Tenants, Empowering the Managers: Impact of Public Housing Governance Reform in Hong Kong
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