Eden of the Orient

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Hong Kong has been headline news for the better part of the past year, and it seems this will continue for the foreseeable future. Before the COVID crisis started, Hong Kong was already in turmoil. With a long list of political and social issues running through the population, the public health crisis only made the deep underlying problems more visible. Much of these problems can be traced back to one issue: a deep and severely growth limiting housing crisis. The city is at an upwards crossroad.