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HK Dail Information Selleks
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Wednesday, March 25, 1970
363.000 SQUATTERS IN URBAN AREAS
K.27.
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Impossible To Say How Many Want Resettlement
Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, Colonial Secretary, said today the latest
estimate showed there were 363,000 squatters in the urban areas, and it
was impossible to say how many of them wanted resettlement.
He was replying in the Legislative Council to a plea by Mr. Y.K.
Kan in the budget debate that all squatters should be resettled who wanted it.
Sir Hugh thought it would be fair to say that what most squatters
really wanted was decent accommodation at a low rent as close as possible
to where they were now living.
He said Mr. Kan's proposal had to be considered within the context
of what was already being done to resettle squatters.
Those eligible included squatters occupying land needed for
development, others made homeless by natural disasters, and still others
recommended for compassionate resettlement by the Director of Social Welfare.
* In addition, resettlement accommodation was reserved for various
categories of families who were not squatters, such as families displaced
from dangerous buildings under the Rent Advance Scheme, occupants of cottage
areas required for development, and the relief of overcrowded families
living in rosettlement estates.
"As the resettlement building programme is geared to the estimated
requirements under these various heads, any major additional commitment
RECLIVED IN
REGISTRY No.51
22 APR 1970
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