The Transferability of Hong Kong's Public Housing PolicyFootnote¹

1. An earlier and less conceptually construed version of this paper in Chinese will be published by the Peking University Press in a book volume entitled Low Income Housing in China: Current Status and Policy Design (tentative).

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