From Data to Action: Affordable Housing at Speed

Hong Kong faces an urgent mandate: 189,000 public housing units delivered over five years, while meeting rising sustainability requirements including BEAM Plus certification and low-carbon construction standards. The ULI Asia Pacific Home Attainability Index 2026 benchmarks Hong Kong’s housing challenge against 40+ cities across the region, surfacing both the scale of the gap and what peer markets are doing differently.
This workshop opens with two short presentations — one presenting APAC-wide HAI data and regional comparisons, the second showcasing a Hong Kong case study in affordable and sustainable housing delivery — before participants break into small, role-specific table discussions. Each group works on one question: given what you now know and what you control, what will you commit to doing in the next 12 months?

Session Learnings:

• How Hong Kong’s housing affordability compares to 41 cities across Asia Pacific, based on the ULI Asia Pacific Home Attainability Index 2026, and which regional delivery models are producing results
• How Modular Integrated Construction (MiC) and Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) can reduce build time by 30–50% and costs by 20–30%, with direct co-benefits for carbon emissions — drawing on evidence from Singapore, Japan, and Australia
• What specific regulatory, procurement, and financing barriers are slowing affordable and sustainable housing delivery in Hong Kong, and how they compare to challenges in peer markets
• How green finance instruments can be structured to support affordable and sustainable housing simultaneously, and what conditions need to be in place for them to work at scale in Hong Kong

Post-Event Actions:

• identify and commit to one specific action — in design, procurement, construction methods, or financing — that your organisation can take to support faster delivery of affordable and sustainable housing in Hong Kong in the next 12 months
• Explore adoption of MiC, DfMA, or low-carbon construction methods in an upcoming project or procurement process
• Assess the applicability of green finance instruments — green bonds, sustainability-linked loans — to a real housing project or investment decision within your organisation
• Share HAI 2026 data and regional benchmarks internally to build awareness of Hong Kong’s housing challenge and the cross-sector response it requires