Law Enforcement and Unauthorized Building Works: Illegal Structures and the Hong Kong Buildings Department Case Solution And Analysis, HBR Case Study Solution & Analysis of Harvard Case Studies

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, high atop a lot of old, concrete block buildings with low-income parts of central Hong Kong and around the Kowloon Peninsula, informal metal frame wooden houses were built in the home of thousands of families in a strict, though inexpensive, quarters. These "illegal structures roof," which can be made up called slums in the air, is one of the structures, which, though built illegally, were nevertheless, buy, sell, rent or in the open market. Such structures, in addition, was just one example of a larger phenomenon of the so-called unauthorized building works in Hong Kong. These UBWs, as they were known in the buildings of the Department of the city, including balconies added to Windows, is sometimes used for the bed, which sleep up in the air, as well as hundreds of thousands of store signs and canopy extensions to the ground floors of buildings in the commercial district, the latter is used to create the space for rent shops and restaurants. By 1999, it was estimated that of all UBWs in Hong Kong amounted to a staggering 800,000. According to one estimate, if the authorities still bodies, as they did, it would take 130 years to carry out the removal of all such structures, suggesting that the new ones were built in their place. This case raises the difficult question of the extent to which and the manner in which Hong Kong has to use the law to minimize or eliminate such unauthorized building works in the city, where some parts of the community care most about public safety, while others, often much poorer-care most about the orphanage. HKS Case Number 1631.0 "Hide
by Howard Husock, Herman Leonard 12 pages. Publication date: 01 Oct 2001. Prod. #: HKS301-PDF-ENG