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\nHong Kong, already the world\u2019s least affordable city to work and live in, should take a page out of mainland China\u2019s policy playbook and release more government land to develop rental property to tame runaway home prices, industry experts said.
\nShanghai already provided a glimpse of the practice last month, when the municipal government sold two residential sites in Pudong exclusively for the construction of apartment projects for leasing. The land sales contract stipulated a…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
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