ECON2101 · Group Presentation
Rent Control in Residential Housing
25/26 · Semester B
Abstract
This presentation argues for a hard ceiling on residential rents in Kowloon, framing it as a response to a housing affordability crisis. It draws on national rent trends and a tenant interview, and closes with a call to action.
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…and so when we look at Kowloon today, the picture is unambiguous. Rents have climbed, families are squeezed, and every week we hear another story like Ah Ling's. We believe the evidence — and frankly, the moral case — is overwhelming. Rent control is not a debate, it is a choice, and it is the right one. Some economists will point to shortages, to reduced supply, to the usual textbook diagrams. But those diagrams were drawn in a different city, in a different century. Kowloon is not a textbook. Kowloon is families, and families are running out of time. So we propose a ceiling — firm, enforceable, indexed only to inflation — because half-measures have failed and confident action has not yet been tried…
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Slide 1 · Title
Slide 2 · The problem
Slide 3 · Our proposal
Slide 4 · Takeaway
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