Housing Policy Systems in South and East Asia

HSIAO-HUNG NANCY CHEN Professor of Dean, Graduate Institute of Sociology, National Cheng-chi University, Taipei, Taiwan KWOK YU LAU Associate Professor, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University, Hong Kong KAZUO HAYAKAWA Professor, Institute for Housing, Health and Well-being, Kobe, Japan FASHIR NOOR SIDIN Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, University of Andaias Pedang, Indonesia BELINDA YUEN Associate Professor, Department of Real Estate, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore

This book provides an up-to-date account of housing policy systems in eight countries - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore.This book provides an up-to-date account of housing policy systems in eight countries - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore. With one chapter devoted to each country, there are, in addition, introductory and concluding chapters, in which the editors identify both the similarities in the problems faced, and in the approaches adopted, by the governments of the Asian countries - setting them apart from the West - as well as the differences that indicate the variety of Asian solutions.