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Going upstairs for 3 years and saying goodbye to subdivided housing with no term

2022-01-19T07:37:07.318Z


The waiting time for public housing increased to 5.9 years, a 22-year high. When questioned by Legislative Councillor Lee Wai-king, she asked whether "achieving 3-year upstairs", assisting young people to buy property and "farewell to subdivided housing" would be included in the "Long Term Housing Strategy".


The waiting time for public housing increased to 5.9 years, a 22-year high.

When questioned by Legislative Councillor Lee Wai-king, she asked whether "achieving 3-year upstairs", assisting young people to buy property and "farewell to subdivided housing" will be included in the "Long Term Housing Strategy", and the target of public housing supply in the next 10 years will be raised to every year At least 45,000 cases, making the cumulative processing cases of public housing "zero".


The Secretary for Transport and Housing, Chen Fan, said in a written response to a question today (19th) that the Housing Authority has tried its best to shorten the construction time and increase the housing supply, but has not set a time limit for bidding farewell to subdivided housing and moving upstairs within three years.

He also pointed out that three "breakthrough" measures have been introduced to address the urgent needs of subdivided housing households, including the increase of transitional housing, the implementation of subdivided housing rent control on Saturday (22nd), and the pilot scheme of cash allowances.

As of the end of December, the government has distributed cash subsidies to nearly 67,000 eligible households applying for general public housing.


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Chen Fan said that in order to achieve the goal of three years for ordinary families to go upstairs, the government will continue to work hard to find land to build houses. the land area ratio, clearing Shek Lei interim housing for public housing development, redevelopment of 4 factory buildings under the Housing Authority for public housing use, redevelopment of Sai Wan Village and Ma Tau Wai Village, etc., but no more new measures were mentioned. .

▼10.6 Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced to the Housing Authority to study the reconstruction of Sai Wan Village▼


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Chen Fan continued to point out that addressing the needs of subdivided housing households has always been the goal of the "long-term policy". The government has introduced 3 measures in recent years, including increasing the number of transitional housing units by 20,000 units, launching a 3-year cash subsidy pilot scheme, and On Saturday (22nd), "subdivided housing" rent control will be implemented to strengthen the security of tenancy rights for subdivided housing tenants, and to prevent landlords from arbitrarily increasing rents when renewing their leases.

Chen described the three measures as "breakthrough". Among them, the pilot scheme of cash allowances had been implemented. By the end of December last year, cash allowances had been distributed to nearly 67,000 eligible households applying for general public housing.

Subdivided housing rent management | The law came into effect on January 22, and the increase in each lease renewal shall not exceed 10%. Subdivided housing rent management loopholes | Vulnerable tenants, landlords, take advantage of the empty window to make full and owe the initial rent or become a fake subdivided housing rent management loopholes|Attic After 20 years of dwelling, the big landlord suddenly appeared to drive away the tenant and the charter wife disappeared

Source: hk1

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