opportunities for the children of the flats, a community centre is being built on the site as part of the scheme. Its cost is included in the general expenses, so that it may be considered as a part of any similar plan that may be carried out. The
direction of the clubs for boys and girls in this building will be under the Boys and Girls Clubs Associa- tion, who are assigning two trained club leaders as full-time workers.
From the point of view of utilisa- tion of the land, it should be pointed out that the area houses as many people as if it were completely given over to tenements of the old Hong Kong style, but it adds an amount of open space, to be used for recreation and playing grounds, which is something completely new in low-cost housing in the Colony. Everything, in connection with the project, has been planned in accor- dance with its purpose as a pilot scheme. It is an effort to provide cheap, but adequate, housing on an economic basis, designed and managed and maintained for the welfare of those who have not been satisfactorily housed under the present conditions of speculative
Photograph of one of the completed buildings. building in Hong Kong. It was the building in Hong Kong. It was the hope of the Housing Society to provide accommodation at a much cheaper rate, for the benefit of the poorest of the people. This re- presents the best that can be done at present, A method of providing for the very poor has still to be found.
earmarked from Colonial Develop- ment Fund to be used for housing and the authorities are likely to take a great interest in this pilot scheme, for it will probably be merged into a Housing Trust at a later date. Architect:
A further $13 million has been
T. S. C. Feltham, A R.I.B.A. General Contractors: Lun Sang & Co.
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