Introduction: conceptual contexts / Rebecca L.H. Chiu -- Housing policy and urban development in China : the public housing perspective / Jie Chen -- The security-based public housing policy of Hong Kong : a social development interpretation / Rebecca L.H. Chiu, Mandy H.M. Lau and Bokyong Seo -- Housing in Japan's post-growth society / Yosuke Hirayama and Misa Izuhara -- Housing policy challenges and social development in Korea / Seong-Kyu Ha -- Changes in housing policy, housing wellbeing and housing justice in Taiwan / Chin-Oh Chang and Bor-Ming Hsieh -- No one left homeless : universal provision of housing in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat and Meisen Wong -- Housing policy in Malaysia : bridging the affordability gap for medium-income households / Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz, Noor Rosly Hanif, Ainoriza Mohd. Aini and Mahazril Aini Yaacob -- The unfinished agenda : national housing programmes and policy shifts in India / Urmi Sengupta -- Housing affordability problems of the middle-income groups in Dhaka, Bangladesh : a policy environment analysis / Sadeque Md. Zaber Chowdhury -- Vietnam's post-reform housing policies : social rhetoric, market imperatives and informality / Hoai Anh Tran and Ngai Ming Yip -- Housing segmentation and diverging outcomes in housing wellbeing in Bangkok, Thailand / Thammarat Marohabutr -- Housing policy and social development in Indonesia / Connie Susilawati -- Conclusion : Asian housing policies in the social development contexts / Rebecca L.H. Chiu