{"id":99796,"date":"2018-10-14T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-must-tackle-abuse-of-colonial-era-policy-on-homes-in-its-villages-to-sort-out-housing-shortage\/"},"modified":"2018-10-14T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T07:03:17","slug":"hong-kong-must-tackle-abuse-of-colonial-era-policy-on-homes-in-its-villages-to-sort-out-housing-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-must-tackle-abuse-of-colonial-era-policy-on-homes-in-its-villages-to-sort-out-housing-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong must tackle abuse of colonial-era policy on homes in its villages to sort out housing shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt took Dennis Bray, the then colonial Hong Kong government\u2019s district commissioner for the New Territories, six frenzied weeks in 1972 to draft the small-house policy that has for the past five decades shaped the lives of all of Hong Kong\u2019s 700,000 traditional villagers.
\nCynics say he was buying off powerful traditional village lobbies as the government sought to avoid confrontation while it acquired land to build Hong Kong\u2019s new towns. Sympathisers say he was justifiably…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
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