Hong Kong has enough money and land, but no guts or will to solve its housing crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I feel sorry for Hong Kong people when it comes to housing. They really have...<\/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-13712","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\/p75ss1-3za","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50868,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/heres-where-we-can-find-the-land-to-help-solve-housing-crisis\/","url_meta":{"origin":13712,"position":0},"title":"Here\u2019s where we can find the land to help solve housing crisis","date":"April 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Property prices in Hong Kong have again scaled new heights, demonstrating conclusively that regulatory constraints do not work. 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