ABSTRACT
In Hong Kong, women's housing problems are either completely ignored or at best regarded as individual inadequacy or mishap. For example, lone mothers' problems are usually regarded as resulting from women's inability to maintain the family both before and after the divorce. Women's problems in the new towns are usually perceived as individual maladjustment to the new living environment. The disadvantaged position of women in the housing system does not only increase their burden of homemaking, it also creates women's dependency on men and women's subordination in society at large. Traditional policy analysis tends to focus on the quantity and quality of service provision without challenging the orientation of the policy, this is especially true in Hong Kong. It seems to assume that the state is a benevolent state trying to satisfy the social needs of its citizens as far as possible with its limited resources.
