1.e. the Housing Authority (a statutory body)`
and the Housing Society (a voluntary organisation)
houses for 98,100 people having been provided-
in the preceding 12 months. Higher income
groups are provided for through these two
agencies (financed by Government loans) and by
private enterprise.
3. The present target of the Government
housing programme is to provide accommodation
in resettlement and low cost estates for a
590,000
further 700,000 people by 1975.
1975. It is hoped
that, by 1974, some 2:4 million of the 3,16-
million people in households in the lower income
polas
180.15.07
bracket (about HK$1000 (68.15.0) a month) will
be in Government or Government Aided housing.
The Housing Board
4.
A Housing Board was established in 1965
to advise the Governor on overall housing
policy, and to co-ordinate the execution of
housing programmes by Government, by semi-public
and by private development. The Board regularly
reviews the general housing situation, the
balance between the various types of housing
being constructed and the existing and probable
need for domestic housing over the next ten
years. Membership of the Board comprises
unofficials with experience in the Housing
authority, the Housing Society and private
housing development; and also officials with
responsibilities in the housing field.
The Housing Authority
able
5. This is a Statutory body established to
provide low cost accommodation for families in
the income range of £27.8.0d to £61.16.0d per
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