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No. HKK 18/15
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DRAFT
To:-
HE Sir D Trench GCMG MC Colonial Secretariat
HONG KONG.
Tyheds
Type 1 +
From
Sir L. Monson
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
любу
very morful
1. Thank you very much indeed for your informert
letter of 7 January about housing. To re-house a
quarter of the population of Hong Kong over the next
6 years is certainly an ambitious .undertaking and one
to be swen due
for which the Colony deserves credit.
2.
Could I just clear up one or two points on which
I am still uncertain:
(a) You say that you are now considering the Housing
Board's latest report which proposes that as a
start 30,000 squatters settled on Crown land not
required for development should be resettled
in the next 6 years. Does this 30,000 come
within the figure of 1,040,000 on page 4 of
your letter or are they additional?
(b) Taking your figure of 500,000 for the total
number of squatters in the urban area and
assuming that the vast majority of those who
will get accommodation under the Housing Board
plan over the next 6 years will go to low cost
housing and resettlement estates would it be
correct to say that about 213,000 of the
560,000 you mention will, in fact, be ex-squatters?
In other words, over the next 6 years the target
is to house approximately 42% of the squatters.
/(c)