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Written by: Peng Kaixin Cai Zhengbang
2020-09-20 18:00
Last update date: 2020-09-20 18:00
Mr. Wu, 56 years old this year, lived in a house in Sham Shui Po six years ago after a stroke. A reporter from "Hong Kong 01" visited him last month and found that his living environment was poor, his electrical installations had hidden concerns, and a wall in the kitchen was even more cracked. Open, there is a crisis of collapse.
It turned out that Mr. Wu began to wait for public housing after a stroke. He has waited for more than 6 years but it is still empty. He had to live in a "dangerous building" with trembling.
Due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Mr. Wu, a staff piano player, fell unemployed and desperately desperate to ask the social worker for help. The social worker applied for a community housing for him. "I didn’t think it was successful at the beginning. The social worker should apply first. Win the draw."
At the end of August, Mr. Wu received the notice of the occupancy of the community house on Nanchang Street, and started to move.
In the form of "ant moving", he moved the things in the subdivided houses to the new house in batches.
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Due to the epidemic, restaurants, bars, parties, etc. have stagnated. Since the beginning of this year, Mr. Wu has only accepted 3 jobs and earned about 2,500 yuan. "I am a professional piano player, and my professional staff will go to play with me and cook. If you die, people don’t want to play with us and wait to starve to death.” Seeing that experts change careers one after another, Mr. Wu also tries to find a job actively, “There is no way you have to face it. Jing, the job has not been whereabouts for a long time, "I'm so hesitated, I'm dead, I have no field to do the calculation, but I have to find a social worker to help him." The social worker applied for a community modular house (combined house) for him, and was lucky.
Moving house discovered that the bookcase was invaded by termites
At the end of August, Mr. Wu started to move after receiving the notice of the occupancy of the combined house in Nanchang Street.
In the form of "ant moving", he moved the things in the apartment to the new house in batches. He tried to move back and forth 4 times a day. "If you move the house, you will lose a few pounds by yourself. It's not smooth. You can go back and forth too many times. , Only one foot can't stand it."
Mr. Wu found a wooden bookcase and some books that had been eroded by termites when he was packing things in the sub-room. There were a large number of termites in the cabinet. "If you don’t want to move it, you really don’t even know if you are going all the way to a cabinet. The time is really a big step."
When Mr. Wu was packing things in the sub-district, he found that a wooden bookcase and some books had been eroded by termites.
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If you still haven’t been in a public housing after two years of living or you need to move back to a sub-divided housing
He was rushing to buy furniture and move. In early September, Mr. Wu had moved into his new home. "After moving, I have to buy furniture again, and I will get some allowance to help it. It's like being a man of the world, I'm lucky, I can use the drying room." He was burgled twice in his house. Mr. Wu said that the new house had better security and the tenants needed to abide by the rules, which made him feel at ease.
But the combined housing can only live for two years. Mr. Wu said that there are good and bad transitional housing. For him, he can wait in a safe space for news of the allocation of public housing. Assigned to a public housing, he needs to move back to the sub-house.
The community housing can only live for two years. Mr. Wu said that there are good and bad transitional housing. The bad thing is that when the two-year lease expires, if the public housing is still not allocated, he needs to move back to the sub-house.
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"Nanchang 220" is the first "Combined Social Housing Project" launched by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. Henderson Land leases land to the Social Council to build modular housing units for two years and provides 89 modular housing units for 1 to 3 persons. , Is a transitional house.
According to the Social Council, all 89 units are rented out and it is believed that all tenants will move in in mid-September.
Yin Zhaojian: The government uses a "commissioning" approach to deal with housing problems
The Deputy Chairman of the Housing Panel of the Legislative Council, Yin Siu insisted that transitional housing itself is a good way to alleviate the waiting list for public housing. However, the current government of the Hong Kong Government only adopts a "traffic" method and has no determination and attitude to implement the policy. Relying on social welfare agencies and real estate developers to provide private land to build transitional housing, they believe that they have actively solved the housing problem.
The reality is that the supply of transitional housing is scarce, and the developer’s land has to be reclaimed for development after it has only been vacant for a few years. "The quantity is just a drop in the bucket. It is a political makeup."
Yin Zhaojian believes that the current long-term insufficient supply of public housing and the waiting time for at least 5.5 years or more. If the government is determined to improve the transitional housing system, vacant government land should be included in the transitional housing plan to increase the supply of units. Give full play to its "transitional" role, instead of requiring tenants to move out after two years of living, and move into sub-divided houses again.
Tan Guoqiao, chairman of the Housing Affairs Committee of the Sham Shui Po District Council, also criticized the government for being too passive and not actively seeking official land to build transitional housing, and shifting the responsibility to non-governmental organizations. "NGOs are for the benefit of the citizens, not for building." Tan Guoqiao suggested. The government allocates official land to build transitional housing. The housing association or the URA will assist in raising the building, and the unit will be managed by the social welfare agency to assist in the selection of tenants, so that public housing waiting households living in harsh environments can be used in transitional housing. Live until successfully allocated public housing.
According to the latest public housing waiting numbers released by the Housing Authority, as of the end of June this year, there were approximately 155,800 general public housing applications on the waiting list and approximately 103,900 applications under the quota and points system. The non-elderly under "applies for one person.
The average waiting time for general applicants is 5.5 years.
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