Seeing the recently released “policy address” did not quickly increase the land and housing supply program, reminiscent of six months ago with a familiar with the housing policy of the dialogue.

At that time I asked the officer that in the many ways in which a large amount of land could be provided, the recovers had relatively little resistance. As far as I know, in the western waters between Hong Kong Island and Lantau Island, the Government’s internal planning Reclamation, can make a new town that can accommodate one million people. Why can we speed up the implementation of a large increase in land and housing supply?

After the officials heard the news, said that this is a very long-term plan, not more than ten years, the Government intends to do the western waters reclamation plan of the early consultancy report to the Legislative Council for funding. Because the Legislative Council Finance Committee pull, dragged on for two years, has not yet passed. Early consultancy report has not yet done, but also talk about what land reclamation it? That is, a single cloth, has made the western reclamation plan at least delayed two or three years!

Do not say this long-term plan, say something more recent. At the last meeting of the Legislative Council Finance Committee in July this year, there was originally a Tung Chung New Town Expansion Project involving 49,000 flats, 60% for public housing and applying for funding from the Finance Committee. The. It is not surprising that the whole plan is to be postponed for a year or two. Would have been able to stay in Tung Chung new town of 49,000 families, it is necessary to suffer more than two years of rent or buy expensive floor, do they know why the reason? At present, the “green home” scheme of public housing tenants will be returned to public rental flats in order to be redeemed for one or two months. Many people have been discussing with great trouble. The applicants who are waiting for public housing should wait one or two months, Why is the expansion of the new town of Tung Chung due to a substantial delay in the cloth, and no one speak

I brought up a plan for reclamation of western waters for one million people, and many officials felt that it was impossible to solve the housing problem with these long-term plans. The reason for this is that it is time for the Legislative Council to apply for funding, to do an EIA, to consult the District Councils and to the City Council. Before the reunification, it would take seven or eight years for reclamation, and it would not take ten more times for ten years, and it was not yet possible to calculate the time for the Legislative Council to travel indefinitely.

We hope that the development of democracy, happy to see the political system gradually open. But in the open process, can not prevent the voters to select some radical opposition members. The radical opposition line is different from that of the pan-fines, and they are only a few in parliament, and because they have to pay attention to their opinions, they have taken Labs to paralyze the parliament. And they are different from the general members of the Council members not only will not stop, and sometimes even secretly with, because that play the government is also good, you can increase their bargaining chips.

Former system is also more  incompetent, afraid to take a fierce cut cloth action, will stimulate the grievances, affecting their own election, so often stifled choke, do not want to do ugly people. It is so procrastination, so that in the past few years, most of the government’s projects have been greatly slowed down. In the case of a financial year, for example, only 20% of the projects approved by the Finance Committee were far less than eighty-eight of the previous year. The amount of the award was $ 50 billion. Many involved people’s livelihood and housing projects, Are shelved.

This is a “vicious circle”. The young people are militants to supervise the government and promote democracy. These radical members use Rabons to paralyze the government’s allocation. As a result, property prices and rents have risen, and the young people have been damaged in the end. Many people in the community who have middle-aged or above have their own property or housing estates and HOS flats, which are relatively less affected by the sharp rise in property prices. And young people have just entered the community, hoping to leave the family, living alone, or married to another group of families, there is the need to buy a house, so they are most affected by the sharp rise in property prices and rents. Within this cycle, the young people voted for the radical members to pull the cloth, and finally they themselves suffer the high rent of high property prices and not know.