Housing Policy, Wellbeing and Social Development in Asia

Rebecca L. H. Chiu is Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and Director of the Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, and Founding Chairman of Asia Pacific Network for Housing Research.Seong-Kyu Ha is Emeritus Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Real Estate, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea and President of the Korea Research Institute of Housing Management, Seoul, Korea.

• 1 Introduction: Conceptual ContextsRebecca L. H. Chiu2 Housing Policy and Urban Development in China: The Public Housing PerspectiveJie Chen3 The Security-based Public Housing Policy of Hong Kong: A Social Development InterpretationRebecca L. H. Chiu, Mandy H. M. Lau and Bokyong Seo 4 Housing in Japan’s Post-growth SocietyYosuke Hirayama and Misa Izuhara5 Housing Policy Challenges and Social Development in KoreaSeong-Kyu Ha6 Changes in Housing Policy, Housing Wellbeing and Housing Justice in TaiwanChin-Oh Chang and Bor-Ming Hsieh7 No One Left Homeless: Universal Provision of Housing in SingaporeChua Beng Huat and Meisen Wong8 Housing Policy in Malaysia: Bridging the Affordability Gap for Medium-income HouseholdsWan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz, Noor Rosly Hanif, Ainoriza Mohd Aini and Mahazril ‘Aini Yaacob9 The Unfinished Agenda: National Housing Programmes and Policy Shifts in IndiaUrmi Sengupta10 Housing Affordability Problems of the Middle-income Groups in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Policy Environment AnalysisSadeque Md Zaber Chowdhury11 Vietnam’s Post-reform Housing Policies: Social Rhetoric, Market Imperatives and InformalityHoai Anh Tran and Ngai Ming Yip12 Housing Segmentation and Diverging Outcomes in Housing Wellbeing in Bangkok, ThailandThammarat Marohabutr13 Housing Policy and Social Development in IndonesiaConnie Susilawati14 Conclusion: Asian Housing Policies in the Social Development ContextsRebecca L. H. Chiu