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A study of gender inequality in the housing system in Hong Kong, challenging the traditional conceptualization of women's housing problems as rooted in individual incompetence or in the breaking up of particular families. Argues that women's housing problems are socially constructed by a patriarchal social system coupled with the laissez- faire capitalist system in Hong Kong. Focus is on the lone mother's housing problems and women's experience in new towns. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.