District 18 News
Written by: Huang Jinghong
2020-12-03 20:06
Last update date: 2020-12-03 20:06
Chief Executive Carrie Lam said in the 2020 policy address that 70% of the land on the artificial island of "Lantau Tomorrow" will be used for public housing.
After the government has mobilized the agenda, the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council will first review the 550 million allocation for preliminary research tomorrow (4th). It is expected that it will be passed smoothly.
A group concerned about the rights and interests of grassroots housing released an investigation report today (3rd), indicating that sub-divided households oppose the vision of tomorrow’s Lantau, believing that the planned investment is too large and the harvest period is too long. "The same will happen in 20 to 30 years. We, we don’t want it.” The group suggested that the government give priority to using brownfields to build houses to ease the demand for basic housing as soon as possible.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam said in the 2020 policy address that 70% of the land on the artificial island of "Lantau Tomorrow" will be used for public housing.
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Concern for the Grassroots Housing Unit conducted the "Subdivided Housing Owners’ Opinion Questionnaire Survey on Tomorrow’s Lantau" from November 26 to December 1. A total of 386 questionnaires were received and the survey results were released today. The results showed that more than 60% of the respondents were interviewed Those who oppose tomorrow’s Lantau, more than half of the interviewees indicated that the plan is to spend a lot of public money as the main reason for their opposition.
Mr. Jiang, who has lived in the sub-house for four years, believes that tomorrow, Lantau "far waters cannot save the nearby fire", and is angry that the plan ignores the interests of the grassroots citizens. "It will take 20 years to get to the house first." He continued to point out the current situation. The living environment is very bad, and what I am most concerned about is housing issues. "I am 60 years old this year. I believe I have no chance to wait until I am 80. I really didn't expect Lantau to help me tomorrow." He called on officials to be considerate of grassroots life. Twenty or thirty years later, I will be the same, but I don’t want it.”
Mr. Toe of the sub-family lamented that it takes a long time to reclaim the land. "I am 60 years old this year. I believe I have no chance to wait until I am 80."
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Worries about the failure of subsidized sale units to benefit the grassroots
Organizing Officer Li Dacheng said that due to the sharp decline in the supply of public housing in recent years, the grassroots are very concerned about the housing supply strategy of Lantau tomorrow. The government has always used the housing problem as a reason and insisted on implementing the reclamation plan. I have reservations about this. Please don’t use the sub-household tenants as a shield to promote the things that the sub-household tenants don’t want." He continued that about 70% of the respondents were not satisfied with the housing policy in this year’s policy address. It shows that the government has failed to relieve the difficulties of the sub-household households.
"There is nothing to help him in the short term. It is a bad thing to listen to a false hope that 20 years from now."
Organizing Officer Li Dacheng (left) criticized the government for "using sub-divided households as a shield" for pushing the reclamation plan.
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Lam Cheng announced the "Policy Address" last Wednesday (25th), emphasizing the importance of Lantau's mid- and long-term housing supply in Hong Kong tomorrow. It is understood that the artificial island can provide up to 78,000 residential units, and the ratio of public and private housing is 7 to 3; In addition, the government mentioned in the policy address that it has found 330 hectares of land to build 316,000 public housing units in the next ten years. In the next five years, 95,200 public housing units will be completed, of which about a third of them will be completed. One is subsidized sale of houses.
Li Dacheng questioned that most of the public housing mentioned in the Lantau Project tomorrow will be subsidized sale units, and may include higher-priced first-home buyers, and the grassroots will not benefit.
Li Zhirong, a member of the CSSA Low-Income Coalition, said that he is worried that Lantau will overspend tomorrow and squeeze social welfare resources.
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Li Zhirong: huge investment squeezes welfare expenditure
Li Zhirong, a member of the CSSA Low-Income Coalition, mentioned that the cost of construction will rise with inflation. Today, Lantau is expected to cost HK$624 billion and the final expenditure may exceed one trillion, which will accelerate the depletion of fiscal reserves.
He continued that the government is "unwilling" to formulate unemployment assistance measures. In the foreseeable future, he predicts that the number of unemployed people and the number of CSSA applicants will rise sharply. "The government has a long-term investment and a lot of money. Is it worth it if the results are unknown?" He urged the government to use its fiscal reserves on the cutting edge, such as setting up unemployment assistance to relieve the needs of the grassroots.
Li Wenluo, secretary of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission of Hong Kong, is worried that the government will raise funds from the market to carry out the Lantau Reclamation Project tomorrow. He is worried that the introduction of market funds will change the proportion of public and private housing on the artificial island, or make Lantau tomorrow. Market speculation projects have left the demand for housing at the grassroots level behind.
There are about 1,414 hectares and 165 hectares of brownfield sites in Hong Kong with and without operations, mainly located in the northwest and northeast of the New Territories, with an area of more than 1,000 hectares on "Lantau Tomorrow".
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Suggest priority to develop brownfield
According to data from the Planning Department, there are about 1,414 hectares and 165 hectares of brownfields in Hong Kong with operating and non-operating brownfields, mainly located in the northwest and northeast of the New Territories, with an area of more than 1,000 hectares "Lantau Tomorrow".
The organization advocates the principle of "brown before green", recommending that the government use brownfields to develop public housing instead of reclamation as a priority option, speed up the completion of supply houses, and avoid damage to the environment.
According to the survey, about 40% of the interviewees believe that the use of brownfields to build public housing can best increase the supply of public housing; while only about 10% of the respondents answered that they were reclaiming land from the sea.
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