{"id":53672,"date":"2017-05-04T07:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/opinion-easy-scapegoats-beget-wrong-solutions-for-our-housing-woes\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T07:11:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:11:59","slug":"opinion-easy-scapegoats-beget-wrong-solutions-for-our-housing-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/opinion-easy-scapegoats-beget-wrong-solutions-for-our-housing-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Easy scapegoats beget wrong solutions for our housing woes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAs it takes time for new supply to materialise, the government also introduced several rounds of demand-side management measures to address market exuberance. These measures have achieved notable success.
\n–Joyce Kok, Principal Assistant Secretary for Transport & Housing,
\nLetters to the editor, May 2
\nA notable success indeed. The latest figures show residential prices up an average of 18 per cent from a year ago. Was that what you had in mind, madam?
\nIt won\u2019t do to argue that this is…
\n
\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…Opinion: Easy scapegoats beget wrong solutions for our housing woes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As it takes time for new supply to materialise, the government also introduced several rounds...<\/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-53672","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-dXG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43135,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/innovative-solutions-needed-for-hks-land-housing-woes\/","url_meta":{"origin":53672,"position":0},"title":"Innovative solutions needed for HK\u2019s land, housing woes","date":"February 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Understandably land supply and housing appear to be two of the main topics which contenders need to tackle to secure both Election Committee and public support in next month\u2019s Chief Executive election. 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