Survey: More than 80% of respondents approve that transitional housing does not help alleviate housing difficulties. Groups urge to extend the rental period

The "Policy Address" proposes to further increase the number of transitional houses to 20,000 units, but the details are still unclear.

Concern for the Basic Housing Unit issued a survey report today (3rd) and found that nearly 90% of the respondents expect the government to continue to develop transitional housing as a strategy to curb the development of subdivided housing in the interim, but more than 8 adults consider transitional housing It does not help alleviate the living environment of families who have not been able to go upstairs, including transitional housing whose rental period is too short to cover the upstairs period of the grassroots.

The joint proposal suggested that the government should extend the rental period of transitional housing and improve the supporting facilities of transitional housing projects.

Concern for the Grassroots Housing Unit issued a survey report today (3rd) and found that nearly 90% of the interviewees expect the government to continue to develop transitional housing.

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The survey interviewed 201 people, of which nearly 80% lived in subdivided houses, cubicles, rooftop structures, beds or transitional houses, among which subdivided households accounted for the most, accounting for 76.1%.

Among the respondents, 70.1% are waiting for public housing, 21.3% have a waiting period of 6 to 8 years, and 29.8% have been waiting for 4 to 6 years.

The survey found that 81.1% of the interviewees believed that transitional housing did not help alleviate the living environment of families who failed to go upstairs, while more than 70% believed that 20,000 transitional housing units were not enough to cope with the current sub-divided housing problem.

As for the current rental period of most transitional houses of about two years, 87.6% of the respondents think that the period is too short to match the tenants’ allocation to the upper floors, and 65.6% suggest that it should be possible to let the grassroots who cannot go to the upper floors. The public was allocated public housing, and more than half of them agreed that the transitional housing operators discussed the feasibility of extending their rental housing with the landlord.

The Joint Care for Grassroots Housing believes that the waiting time for public housing has reached a new 22-year high of 5.9 years. It is believed that the ceiling will continue to rise in the future. The rental period of transitional housing is too short to support the "upstairs" of unsuitable households. , There is a great chance that the sub-district housing and other extremely unsatisfactory living environment will be reconsidered again.

The group also pointed out that the survey found that 89.6% of the respondents expect the government to continue to develop transitional housing to curb the rising trend of the number of subdivided housing, while 54.2% believe that planning should be based on the distribution of subdivided housing units and residents. The location of transitional houses, especially in areas where there are many sub-areas such as Yau Tsim Mong and Sham Shui Po.

New World Lends Niu Tamwei Land The Hong Kong Lutheran Society applies to build 1,000 transitional houses with the smallest size of 179 sq. ft. A total of 16,000 transitional houses will be completed by mid-2023. Build transitional houses to help young people go upstairs