Survey of the critical issue of the public housing privacy to influence on residents’ living condition in Hong Kong

• Main Author: Liu Wen Tao
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-12-01
• Series: HBRC Journal
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1687404816301006

This paper explores the oriental pearl—Hong Kong as the target and to know the situation of public housing privacy. Also, some future perspectives will be forwarded to solve the housing privacy problem of Hong Kong and to improve the local residents’ living condition. In the survey, the researcher obtains the data onto two types of interviews: local residents and government officers. It is also supported by the utilization of secondary data. The findings of this research indicate that most of the residents endure in the housing privacy problem, and this problem became the critical social issue that seriously affects their regular life in Hong Kong. Furthermore, the findings have powerful living condition implications. They are highly influential on humanity’s quality of life that related to housing private characteristics. Due to the high living density and small housing size of the public housing in Hong Kong, the local residents’ housing privacy definitely will be affected. Therefore, to improve public housing residents’ living condition in Hong Kong, certain housing private variables need to be paid attention and improved in the future. In a word, to improve residents’ living condition of the public housing in Hong Kong, certain housing private variables need to be paid attention and upgraded in the future. Keywords: Public housing, Housing privacy, Living condition, Hong Kong