The government should help those offering cheap temporary homes to people waiting for public housing, an academic has said, upon a study finding that people given such a stopgap could earn more, and did not become dependent on cheaper rent.
As of September, waiting times for public housing averaged 4.5 years, and critics have decried the government’s lukewarm response to the idea of giving people on the waiting list some kind of interim arrangement.
A study by Dr Chung Kim-wah from...
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