{"id":125169,"date":"2022-03-08T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/subsidised-homes-for-hong-kongs-young-couples-would-help-solve-housing-crisis\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T05:07:08","slug":"subsidised-homes-for-hong-kongs-young-couples-would-help-solve-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/subsidised-homes-for-hong-kongs-young-couples-would-help-solve-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Subsidised homes for Hong Kong\u2019s young couples would help solve housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIn early December, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released the \u201cWorldwide Cost of Living 2021\u201d report.Hong Kong, which ranked first last year, fell to fifth place below Zurich by end of 2021, while Tel Aviv in Israel became the city with the highest cost of living in the world for the first time, mainly because of the soaring local exchange rate and the sharp rise in prices of commodities and real estate, especially residential buildings.The more developed a city is, the higher its cost\u2026&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/article\/3169642\/subsidised-homes-hong-kongs-young-couples-would-help-solve-housing-crisis?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subsidised homes for Hong Kong\u2019s young couples would help solve housing crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; In early December, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released the \u201cWorldwide Cost of Living 2021\u201d&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-wyR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66416,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sun-hung-kai-next-to-get-behind-hong-kongs-new-subsidised-starter-homes-scheme\/","url_meta":{"origin":125169,"position":0},"title":"Sun Hung Kai next to get behind Hong Kong\u2019s new subsidised starter homes scheme","date":"September 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP), Hong Kong\u2019s largest developer by value, said it has identified three possible sites suitable for building affordable housing under a new government-subsidised scheme to help young, first-time buyers. 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