HONG KONG, May 5 ― Hong Kong has emerged a more unequal city, its freedoms curtailed and international shine dulled after five years with Carrie Lam at the helm, analysts say, as her turbulent leadership draws to an end.
She is on track to depart at the end of June with the lowest approval ratings of any leader since the handover from Britain. Last year, 1.65 million Hong Kongers ― nearly one in four ― were living below the government's official poverty line, which for a one-person household means HK$4,400 a month.“The grassroots have been very neglected,” said Sze Lai-shan, deputy director of the Society for Community Organization.Even pro-establishment figures have been unimpressed.
Lam increased public housing supply, more than her predecessors, but demand still outstripped supply with the wait time increasing to six years. The departures surged further this year when Hong Kong's zero-Covid policy collapsed as the more transmissible Omicron variant broke through, killing more than 9,000 people, mostly under-vaccinated elderly.Lam recently acknowledged that the curbs had caused a brain drain among foreign businesses, saying it was an “undeniable fact”.
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