According to CY Leung, half of the people in HK earn less than $1,800 (must be USD) a month, which means they are living in poverty.

According to the NY Times: "The Beijing-appointed leader of Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying, said Monday evening that allowing his successors to be chosen in an open election based on who won the greatest number of votes was unacceptable in part because it would produce policies skewed toward the poor."

So, in other words, HK cannot have truly representative government because half of its population is poor and the policies of the HK government is not interested in truly addressing those issues. CY Leung's solution to HK's deep economic problems--expand the supply of public housing. Not jobs, not economic stimulus and better education for the middle-class and those living in poverty, just more government housing units (where over 40% of HK residents currently reside because of high (and ever rising) housing costs).

Well, if half of the city is impoverished, then I would say the oligarchs who rule HK have a problem. Rome is burning and CY is fiddling. The future of HK is not a bright one and the current social problems will only increase if no real solutions are forthcoming from Beijing (through its proxy HK government).