![]() Over the twenty-year period between 20, house rent in the private rental sector increased by 115%. ![]() Hong Kong has been one of the most unaffordable cities in terms of house prices for almost the past two decades. With the historical experience of the City of Darkness, the aim of this article is to shed light on the in situ resettlement of original site residents-very much at the heart of land readjustment-as a means to bring down the transaction costs of deep urban redevelopment. Using declassified archival documents and maps, this article argues that LR was already implemented-albeit informally-in Hong Kong during the 1960s–70s within the Kowloon Walled City. To get around the hurdles of urban redevelopment, a land management technique called land readjustment (LR) has been recommended, but its use has never been institutionalised in the city. Yet, this approach brings about many socio-economic issues that drive up the transaction costs for its implementation. Apart from developing new land for housing, one possible approach to deal with the land supply constraint is to speed up the redevelopment of old buildings in the city centre in order to maximise the land use potential. The growth of informal housing in the city has long been attributed to the shortage of housing supply. ![]() Since the early 2010s, sub-divided flats have been proliferating in Hong Kong-one of the world’s most compact and expensive cities to live in. ![]()
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