The fifth wave of the epidemic broke out in Hong Kong earlier. The government announced in February that three new public housing buildings would be converted into community isolation facilities, involving the first Wong Yat Building, the seventh Wong Ching Building and Hang King Building, Lai King Village, Queen's Hill Village. More than 3,000 units hope to help break the chain of community transmission.
A prospective tenant who was originally scheduled to move into Hang King Building in March this year said that many large-scale community isolation facilities have been built and opened in Hong Kong. The date of the house made him lose his budget.
Some concerned groups said that the government has now identified 9 sites to build community isolation facilities, and nearly 50,000 beds are about to be put into use.
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Ahao, who is in his 40s, has been waiting for public housing since 2014. At the end of last year, he learned that he could live in a 360-square-foot unit in Hang King Building, Lai King Village. The new public housing complex was converted into a community isolation facility, which forced the move-in date to be postponed.
Ahao said that the family of four currently lives in a subdivided apartment of about 100 square feet. When they learned that they could "go upstairs", they told the owner that they would not sign a new lease, nor pay any more fees for broadband Internet access, etc., and planned to move in March. The new house, but the unit was suddenly requisitioned as a community isolation facility, which made them lose their budget. "It's so helpless, I waited for the government to arrange to pick up the key, but when I arrived at my house, no one told me when I would be able to move in first. I don't know when to wait."
Ahao said frankly that the government has built many large-scale community isolation facilities in recent months to accommodate the confirmed patients, but the new public housing units that have been converted into isolation facilities have low occupancy rates. If the epidemic is serious and many people are staying, we will have nothing to say, but the epidemic situation in our family has begun to slow down, and there are many makeshift hospitals for confirmed cases to stay in. I don't care to scare us at the grassroots level, and we will be accommodated as soon as possible. ? It is very difficult for migrant workers to ask for leave to move houses. If there is a certain date, you can have a budget. 𠵱My heart is full of laughter every day.” Ah Hao is also worried that once the epidemic rebounds after the Easter holiday, the date of handover will change again. become distant.
Proposed allowance for prospective tenants
At present, there are 16 community isolation facilities in Hong Kong, and some groups believe that the relevant facilities are sufficient.
Pan Yongshan, a member of the Kwai Chung Subdivided Housing Alliance, said that the government has identified 9 plots of land to build community isolation facilities, and nearly 50,000 beds are about to be put into use.
"𠵱My family has received at least 5 related requests for help. Some of them broke the rent with the owners, some of them changed jobs, and they lost their budget." She believes that if the utilization rate of the isolation facilities in the new public housing units is not high, the authorities will Prospective tenants should be informed about the exit time as soon as possible, and even if the housing cannot be handed over, corresponding measures and supporting facilities should be provided to cater for their housing needs.
In addition, she also suggested that the authorities should refer to the example of Chun Yeung Estate for granting allowances to prospective tenants.
Hong Kong 01 is making enquiries with the Housing Department on the incident.
▼On February 15, the government announced that Huangyi Building and Huangcheng Building in Queens Hill Village, Fanling were listed as isolation facilities▼
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