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2.Background: The

Contemporary Picture

2.1 Private and Public Household

Dwellings

In Hong Kong today, household dwellings are roughly evenly
divided between the private and public sector. Table 1 shows that by the
end of 2015, private sector owners and renters constitute about 53% of total
domestic households, while 47% of households reside in various forms of
government subsidised housing. In particular, 16% live in subsidised sales
units in which the “Home Ownership Scheme” (HOS) and the “Tenant
Purchase Scheme” (TPS) makes up the majority, and 31% live in Public
Rental Housing (PRH) Units.

Table 1. Domestic households by type of housing, 2015

Note : (*) Subsidised sales flats that can be traded in open market are excluded.
Source: Census and Statistics Department.

Hong Kong has a large public housing sector even by international
standards. Table 2 shows that among other advanced economies, the
percentages of domestic households in the population living in public
sector housing pale in comparison with Hong Kong.

Table 2. Percentage of domestic households living in public rental housing
in selected economies

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