When Adrian Cheng Chi-kong, the third-generation scion of one of Hong Kong’s biggest landowners, met Ricky Yu in 2016, the seed of an unorthodox idea was planted.Yu, founder of the non-profit builder Light Be, was looking for land to build what his six-year-old group calls social housing, including co-tenancy abodes for single mothers with children. Cheng, then 37, was vice-chairman of one of Hong Kong’s largest developers, owning 12 million sq ft of land, not including another 17 million sq ft…
Source : South China Morning Post
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