Pre-Trip

Welcome to our blog! We are a team of 13 TPJC students and 2 teachers

embarking on a 6 days 5 nights trip to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong consists of 3 main islands known as Hong Kong Island, Kowloon
and the New Territories. Hong Kong has a population of about 7.8 million.
Through this trip, we hope to find out more about the economics, geography
and cultural aspects of Hong Kong and thus, gain new insights about these
learning aspects by linking it with the theoretical concepts we learn during the
lessons we have in TPJC.
Before we embarked on this learning journey, we have done some research in
order to find out more information on the differences in the Housing Markets
and private car ownership in Singapore and Hong Kong. Through this
comparison, we have drawn up a few aims that will help us maximize our
learning experience during the trip.
One of the major aims is to find out more about Hong Kongs private and
public housing policies. Based on our research, we have found out that the
problem of inequity is most prevalent in both Singapore and Hong Kong, and
as a result, most of the housing policies implemented have been centred
around solving income inequity. Therefore, we want to find out more about
the effectiveness of the policies and the current situation in Hong Kong by
first-handedly visiting a public and private house during the trip. Through this
experience, we are able to observe the living conditions of both public and
private housing in Hong Kong compared to that of Singapore.
Linking back the geographical aims, one of which is to find out more about the
level of development of Hong Kong. We have researched that about 80,000
people were living in inadequate housing in Hong Kong in 2010. These homes
and living spaces are usually less than 9.3 square metres in size, but cage
homes tend to be just 1.9 square metres. This leads to various housing-related
problems that affect the health of the people and thus, causing the level of
development to stagnate. Therefore, we want to find out more about the
current situation of public housing in Hong Kong and its effects on the people.
As seen from these aims, we are able to see certain similarities between
geography and economics due to the underlying purpose of improving the
social and economic conditions of the housing situation in Hong Kong.

Through these findings, our interest has been greatly piqued and we cant wait
to embark on this learning journey to gain new insights on the current
situation in Hong Kong.