The antipoverty effect of public rental housing in Hong Kong

被引：9

作者：

Hu, Fox Zhi Yong ^{[1
]}

Chou, Kee-Lee ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Hong Kong Inst Educ, Dept Asian & Policy Studies, Tai Po, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

来源：

HABITAT INTERNATIONAL | 2015年 / 46卷

关键词：

Public rental housing; Poverty; Imputed rent; Hong Kong;

D O I：

10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.12.005

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

This paper examines the antipoverty effect of public rental housing (PRH) in Hong Kong based on a comparison of estimated imputed rents from PRH through regression-based and stratified rental equivalence methods. Empirical analysis shows that stratified equivalence method tended to generate a larger effect of poverty rate reduction and smaller effect of poverty gap reduction than regression-based method. The study identified a trend towards upwardly biased estimate of public imputed rent in the implementation of stratified equivalence method in Hong Kong where limited strata was available for the estimation. The development of antipoverty measures may be misguided if the stratified equivalence method is used in its current form in Hong Kong. The paper suggests that the choice of estimation method has important implications for evaluating the pros and cons of PRH from both poverty reduction and budgetary perspectives. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：206 / 213

页数：8