公共政策对话系列|The Constraint City: Livability, mobility, connectivity and sustainability
Despite overall economic affluence, steady increase in wealth and wages, ample educational and training opportunities, high life expectancy and an efficient healthcare system, social disparity in Hong Kong has been worsening in recent years. Deteriorating housing affordability and social mobility are driving discontent. Infrastructure and public transport capacities have been stretched to their limit (until Covid-19 ended, temporarily, the large influx of visitors). Urban planning and land use fall behind social and economic needs. Innovation capability lags behind other big cities in the region. Hong Kong has become a 'constraint city'. There is real concern about its long-term sustainability in growth, quality of living and competitiveness.