Mr LAI Kin Kwok

Biography

Mr LAI was a community social worker working with residents in urban slum before he  joined the CIHE.  He has been actively advocating for measures on decent housing to deprived households in low-ended private rental sector.  He founded the Hong Kong Subdivided Flats Concerning Platform with a group of frontline social workers, policy researchers and academics in 2012 and acted as the convener thereafter until 2019 when he founded a social enterprise, ComHome Social Housing Platform to delivery and advocate social housing in Hong Kong.  He also serve as executive committee members in various NGOs.  Besides teaching social work practice and social policy courses, he has also been organising social exposure programmes for social sciences students in the past decade.

Education

• Registered Social Worker
• MPhil (Urban Policy & Practice), University of Glasgow (UK)
• BSW (Hon), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Dip SW, City University of Hong Kong

Teaching

Courses taught:

1. SWK103 Social Work Theory and Practice I
2. SWK104 Fieldwork I
3. SWK106 Self Understanding Laboratory
4. SWK203 Fieldwork II
5. SWK209 Social Policy and Legal Knowledge
6. SOWK605 Social Policy Analysis and Advocacy
   

Research

Research Interest:

Community Work Practice, Substandard Housing, Urban Regeneration, Housing Policy, Reflective Social Work Education

Research Projects:

2020-2021, PI, HK$121,500
Research Project on Subdivided Flats in Kwun Tong District (commissioned by Kwun Tong District Council)

2016-17, PI, HK$578,450
Advocacy Project on Subdivided Unit Rental Index and Transitional Housing, (commissioned by Oxfam Hong Kong)

2014-15, Co-I, Self-financed
Rental Index of Sub-divided Housing Units in Hong Kong, (commissioned by Edward Yiu (Associate Professor, CUHK) and Platform of Concerning Subdivided Flats and Issue in Hong Kong)

2013-14, Co-I, $45,000
Quality of Living of Carers for Persons with Severe Disabilities and Their Needs for Services, (commissioned by Christian Family Services Centre)

2012, PI, self-financed
PI, Living Situation of Residents in Subdivided Flats in Hong Kong (commissioned by Platform of Concerning Subdivided Flats in Hong Kong)

Selected Publications

• 賴建國（2024）〈劏房的過去與現在，明天如何可了？〉，載羅金義編，《弱勢者視角下的香港未來》，香港：香港城市大學出版社。
• Leung, M, Yiu, E.C.Y & Lai, K.K. (2020) " Responsiveness of sub-divided unit tenants' housing consumption to income: a study of Hong Kong informal housing" IN Housing Studies. DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1803799
• Yip, N.M. & Lai, K.K. (2020) "Housing for the Poor" IN CY Leung Administration, Hong Kong: City University Press.
• 賴建國（2019）〈形相雖變，信念不變〉，載於邵家臻、歐陽達初、趙維生（合編）《囚錮的社工：15封給社工的信》，香港：香港基督徒學會。頁122-126。
• 賴建國（2019）〈從爭取劏房舒緩政策看本地的政策倡議理論與實踐〉，載於《堅守、創新與開拓：社區發展服務彙編2019》，香港：香港社會服務聯會。
• 賴建國（2013）〈遠水難救近火：《長策》如何解決舊區劏房探索〉，載於捍衛基層住屋權益聯盟編《拋磚記──回應新自由主義的香港房屋運動》，香港：基層發展中心。
• 賴建國（2011）〈從香港地產公司聘請社工說起〉，載於《中國社會工作》，2011年8月（上），頁54-55。
• 賴建國（2010）〈社區工作介入理論新方向的一點觀察〉，載於香港社會服務聯會《社區發展資料彙編（2001~2010年）》編輯委員會編《社區發展資料彙編2001至2010年：承傳．探索．蛻變》，香港：紅出版（圓桌文化）。
• 伍斯安、賴建國（2010）〈從社工聯席看舊市區社工角色的變化與未來發展〉，載於香港社會服務聯會《社區發展資料彙編（2001~2010年）》編輯委員會編《社區發展資料彙編2001至2010年：承傳．探索．蛻變》，香港：紅出版（圓桌文化）。
• Lai, K.K. (2008) "Hong Kong and it tenants: Review over the first decade of handover", IN Global Tenant, International Union of Tenants' Quarterly Magazine, December 2008, Stockholm Sweden.
• 賴建國（2007）〈「以人為本」的市區重建〉，關注舊區住屋權益社工聯席編《書寫重建──市區重建服務彙編》，香港：立法會議員張超雄辦事處。
• 賴建國（2007）〈服務資助者、服務提供者與服務受眾的關係反思〉，關注舊區住屋權益社工聯席編《書寫重建──市區重建服務彙編》，香港：立法會議員張超雄辦事處。
• 賴建國（2001）〈民眾劇場應用於弱勢社群初探〉，香港社會服務聯會社區發展資料彙編：《社區發展資料彙編：一九九九至二零零零年》，香港：香港社會服務聯會。