The Role of Public Private and Community Partnerships (PPCPs) in Advancing Affordable Housing Development in Hong Kong and Beyond
Hong Kong has some of the world's most expensive housing and innovative policy experiments. This lecture explains the PPCP model—a governance hybrid that involves communities, unlike traditional PPPs. The question isn't if it works in Hong Kong, but if it can work elsewhere.
Organizer: Dr. Sujata S. Govada, Founding Director, Institute for Sustainable Urbanisation (ISU), Hong Kong
May 19, 2026 | 09:35 - 10:00
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Summary
Housing affordability is a global crisis, and Hong Kong exemplifies its extremes -soaring property prices, acute land scarcity, and deepening socioeconomic inequality. This lecture examines the Public-Private-Community Partnership (PPCP) model as a mechanism for more equitable and sustainable housing provision, drawing on Hong Kong's long institutional experience with the Housing Authority and Housing Society. Unlike traditional PPPs, the PPCP framework explicitly incorporates community agency, transparency, and social cohesion as design principles -not afterthoughts. The lecture analyses the governance conditions that enable this model to work and assesses its transferability to other high-density, high-cost urban environments around the world.