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Written by: Comment Editor
2020-02-20 07:30
Last updated: 2020-02-20 07:31The epidemic is raging, and the SAR government has requisitioned Junyang Village, which will soon be in Fotan, as a quarantine center. Thousands of prospective residents have lost their budgets. It is true that the community has an urgent need for quarantine facilities, and prospective tenants will inevitably have to make concessions. However, the government only announced that a special subsidy of 6,000 yuan was provided to the relevant residents, which did not help the citizens to meet their housing needs. The authorities should review them.
Foshan Junyang Village was originally scheduled to enter into business early this year. Prospective residents were informed early by the Housing Department that they will distribute keys from February to April, so many people have already made preparations for going upstairs. However, the government has changed the situation of requisitioning unoccupied public housing villages for quarantine purposes. The government announced that it would abandon the requisition of Huiming Village in Fanling at the end of last month. Indicating that the acquisition of Fo Tan Chunyang Village is imperative. The Housing Authority handed over the entire estate to the government early last week, meaning that thousands of prospective residents who have already been assigned must continue to wait to go upstairs.
Lin Zhengyue pointed out that the Hong Kong people of the "Princess Diamond" had to be quarantined for 14 days after returning to Hong Kong. Junyang Village was the only option for those in quarantine. (Photo by Liang Pengwei)
There is no doubt that Junyang Village is quite suitable for isolation purposes in terms of location, number of units, and quality. In addition, as the epidemic situation becomes more severe, thousands of Hong Kong people are stranded abroad, and the government urgently needs to quickly expand quarantine facilities and requisition Junyang. The village is indeed the most efficient approach.
$ 6,000 limited
The government announced last week that together with the previously affected households affected by the deliberate destruction of Fanling Huiming Village, the government will apply for a total of approximately 4,700 eligible public housing applicants who have already received pre-provisioned Junyang Village and Huiming Village. A one-off ex-gratia allowance of 6,000 yuan will be awarded. However, in this expensive Hong Kong, the monthly rent for living in a mortuary also needs to be between 5,000 and 6,000 yuan, not to mention when the epidemic will not be finalized, and after the epidemic situation, the housing estate will have to wait for restoration. Re-allocation, the time for prospective residents to go upstairs may have to be postponed for one and a half years, and the assistance of 6,000 yuan is afraid of little help.
To make matters worse, some prospective residents may no longer renew their current residence due to the upcoming upstairs. Now they have to find a new place of residence. In addition to the opportunity to face more expensive rents, they also need to pay a certain amount for the new home. Gold, which has a lot of pressure on the grass-roots households who are struggling with their lives. Zhuanjiefang may also have paid a certain deposit for the decoration of new homes and the addition of furniture, but it may not be fully unsubscribed. In addition, some prospective residents have also changed jobs and transferred their children to Fotan because they are expected to move to Fotan. The temporary failure to go upstairs will cause a lot of inconvenience to their lives.
Allowance should be increased
At present, the society is dissatisfied with the government's epidemic prevention work, not only because of the slow response of the authorities in the early stage, but also because the society was once caught in the "season" dispute. Some people believe that the spread of the disease is caused by the government's ineffective epidemic prevention. Some prospective residents even sighed that the authorities "gambled to lose, and asked the residents of Junyang Village to pay the bills." Of course, we have no scientific evidence to explain, if the government has accelerated the immigration control, how much will it affect the local epidemic, and in any case, Hong Kong people living in Hubei and the Princess Diamond will always be isolated after returning to Hong Kong. The authorities always need to Requisitioning a place as a quarantine center, but the public's dissatisfaction does reflect the difficulty of the government's current epidemic prevention, which is a challenge it must overcome in the implementation of measures.
At the same time that the government requisitions Junyang Village, it must ensure that the impact on households is minimized. The government should ensure that the affected households have a stable home while they are waiting to re-upstairs. Providing rent allowances will be the most appropriate approach. In the short term, the government can increase the preferential allowances by referring to the median rents of houses in Hong Kong , A certain amount of living allowance will be provided to the affected households every month until the affected housing estate can be re-allocated. In addition, if the government provides interim housing for affected households or even re-allocation of public housing, it will inevitably affect the applicant on his waiting list and the fairness of the overall allocation of public housing. Therefore, the government should Affect households' intentions, and then moderately adjust the arrangements for providing subsidies and re-allocations.
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