SS 2021 Overcrowding Issue

SS 2021 Overcrowding Issue

Main Points

• What is overcrowding?

• What make it a problem?

• Which policies could solve the problem?

• How they solved the problem?

Overcrowding

Over - 過份

crowd - 擁擠

It means people are living so crowded that they cannot tolerate (容忍).

What makes it happen?

• Not enough land

• Not enough facilities

How to solve the problem? (Not enough land)

• Reclamation (填海)

• Building new towns (新市鎮)

• Purpose: to increase the urban area to create space for more buildings (so it is not that crowded)

Open Ended

What other ideas you can suggest?

How to solve the problem? (Not enough facilities)

• building public housings (公共房屋)

• building public facilities (公共設施)

• Purpose: increase the living standard of the common people by providing the needed facilities (so it is more tolerable 可被容忍)

Open Ended

What is the most needed 最有需要的 facilities?