• Not_mikey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    the primary motivation behind this decision was. Obviously it wasn’t building public housing

    That doesn’t mean the intent behind the CCP policy isn’t good, well intentioned, or positive

    Can you see how I’m confused, do you think the primary intent is for public housing, or for some political drama?

    It could be some political drama, we’ll never know what goes on in the HK city council, but if you read the article you’ll see this site wasn’t selected so much as it’s lease was up and the city would be taking back control of it and they needed to do something with it. Yeah some high official could’ve been waiting for the course to come back into city hands so they could build public housing over it and snub a rival, but I think it’s far more likely that the property fell into the cities hands and they decided to turn it into affordable housing because that’s what the city needs, no sinister or alterior motive is needed.