{"id":127583,"date":"2022-07-06T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-chief-executive-john-lee-must-streamline-planning-process-boost-transitional-homes-to-address-hong-kongs-housing-crisis-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:11:38","slug":"new-chief-executive-john-lee-must-streamline-planning-process-boost-transitional-homes-to-address-hong-kongs-housing-crisis-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-chief-executive-john-lee-must-streamline-planning-process-boost-transitional-homes-to-address-hong-kongs-housing-crisis-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chief Executive, John Lee, must streamline planning process, boost transitional homes to address Hong Kong\u2019s housing crisis, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIndustry experts are calling on Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu to speed up the building of transitional housing, streamline the planning process, and relax curbs on reselling as short-term measures to address a chronic shortage of flats.
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…New Chief Executive, John Lee, must streamline planning process, boost transitional homes to address Hong Kong\u2019s housing crisis, experts say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Industry experts are calling on Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu to speed up the building...<\/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-127583","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-xbN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":101990,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/can-hong-kongs-transitional-housing-scheme-help-hongkongers-own-a-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":127583,"position":0},"title":"Can Hong Kong\u2019s transitional housing scheme help Hongkongers own a home?","date":"December 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The Hong Kong government announced in its policy address in October that a new industrial building revitalisation scheme will be launched. 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