{"id":50868,"date":"2017-04-04T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T04:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/heres-where-we-can-find-the-land-to-help-solve-housing-crisis\/"},"modified":"2017-04-04T17:51:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T10:51:50","slug":"heres-where-we-can-find-the-land-to-help-solve-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/heres-where-we-can-find-the-land-to-help-solve-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s where we can find the land to help solve housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nProperty prices in Hong Kong have again scaled new heights, demonstrating conclusively that regulatory constraints do not work. The scale of the shortage can be surmised by the gap in cumulative family formation numbers and new housing units completed over the past 20 years.<br \/>\nThe cumulative number of marriages in Hong Kong from 1986-2016 was 1.75 million. Over the same period, the cumulative number of new domestic housing units built was 1.57 million. Assuming demolished units amounted to about&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/companies\/article\/2084607\/heres-where-we-can-find-land-help-solve-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s where we can find the land to help solve housing crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Property prices in Hong Kong have again scaled new heights, demonstrating conclusively that regulatory constraints&#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-50868","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-des","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13712,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-has-enough-money-and-land-but-no-guts-or-will-to-solve-its-housing-crisis\/","url_meta":{"origin":50868,"position":0},"title":"Hong Kong has enough money and land, but no guts or will to solve its housing crisis","date":"May 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I feel sorry for Hong Kong people when it comes to housing. 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