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4. Funded Research Projects

Overviews of the funded research projects:

4.1 Differential In-migration, Housing Access, and Spatial
Segregation: Hong Kong since 1997 (newly funded

project)

Principal Investigator: Prof. Li Si-ming

Director of LEWI, Convenor of Urbanization and
Mobility Working Group of LEWI and

Chair Professor of Geography
Co-investigator: Dr. Hao Pu

Research Assistant Professor, Mobility and
Urbanisation Working Group of LEWI

Source of Funding: Central Policy Unit, Hong Kong SAR Government
Amount Awarded: HKD852,125

Brief Introduction:

The study addresses two important and interrelated areas of policy concerns: 1.
Population in-migration, including the debates on the One-Way Permit (OWP)

System, the effectiveness of recent schemes to attract mainland talents and
returnees of 2nd generation emigrants from Hong Kong, and the related issues

of locals Vs immigrants schism and socio-spatial segregation; and 2. Housing
access and residential distribution over space, including the gatekeeping

mechanisms of housing and land policies, particularly policies instituted since
1997 under deepening globalization and heightened income and wealth

polarization, in reinforcing public housing estates as low-income neighbourhoods,
and in concentrating recent OWP immigrants and other socially deprived to
heavily subdivided and dilapidated flats Shum Shui Po, Ta Kok Tsui and some

inner-city districts.

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