New thinking accelerates transitional housing plan Di Zhiyuan criticizes the slow pace of government governance

New Thinking held a press conference today (4th), with the theme "Striving for the Future, Striving for the Days" to urge the government to speed up the progress of the transitional housing project.

They pointed out that the transitional housing project has been launched, but so far, only about 200 hotels and guesthouse rooms can be put into service. The situation is extremely unsatisfactory. They called on the government to increase the degree of participation in transitional housing and make the industry more closely cooperate. Provide more rooms as soon as possible to solve the plight of sub-household tenants.

New Thinking Chairman Di Zhiyuan emphasized that the housing problem in Hong Kong is an urgent need to be resolved. Earlier, Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office Xia Baolong has emphasized that the SAR government needs to "say goodbye" to subdivided housing. However, the pace of government administration is still very slow and there is insufficient communication with the industry. After the introduction of the transitional housing, it still failed to meet the urgent needs of the tenants of the subdivided housing.

Di pointed out that the 28-year housing construction plan was too long, and the transitional housing plan in the past few months was also very slow, making it difficult to achieve the ultimate goal of Director Xia.

Di Zhiyuan emphasized that the housing problem in Hong Kong is an urgent matter.

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Di Zhiyuan: The government should strengthen communication with the industry to achieve a "win-win situation"

New thinking believes that the government should strengthen communication with the social welfare sector and the hotel industry. After all, their professional scopes are different, which may cause difficulties in the actual operation of transitional housing, and the plan cannot be greatly expanded.

They suggested that the government should set up a task force to coordinate and invite more hotels to join the transitional housing plan.

Cui Dingbang, Director-General of the Hong Kong Tourism Promotion Association.

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Cui Dingbang: The industry is willing to actively participate in the plan but needs government coordination

Cui Dingbang, director general of the Hong Kong Tourism Promotion Association, pointed out that the industry and the government should make good use of the advantages of "low occupancy" and use idle rooms to transform them into transitional houses.

According to his understanding, with the support of the industry, there are currently about 6,000 to 10,000 hotel rooms that can be released as transitional houses. The government should actively communicate with these hotels so that the plan can be reached as soon as possible.

Cui Dingbang also pointed out that since the government has the ability to invite hotels to provide quarantine rooms, it also has the ability to provide incentives for the industry to participate in the transitional housing plan.

He pointed out that the government should send invitations to all hotels to understand their wishes; at the same time, consider renting some rooms from hotels for transitional housing, and handing them over to other agencies to manage them so that the plan can be reached as soon as possible.

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