29th August 1975
I am authorised by His Excellency the Governor to reply to your letter of 1st August 1975 in which you complained against the tenancy of Rooms 408-410, Block 27, of the Tsz Wan Shan Estate and the alleged disparity of treatment by the Housing Department between that tenancy and the one granted to your mother-in-law.
2.
An exhaustive re-investigation of the facts of the tenancies in question has been carried out and I am satisfied tha The Director of Housing has not submitted an inaccurate report to me in this matter.
3.
In regard to the particular points raised in
your letter:
(a)
rooms becoming vacant on Group B estates may be reserved for special purposes (clearance, waiting list, allocation to estate caretakers etc.) but if they are not required for such purposes, they are dealt with according to the following priorities which have been in use since 1971 and which were confirmed by the present Housing Authority in 1973:
(i) the vacancy is allocated as an additional room to an adjoining tenant, provided the tenant is overcrowded at worse than 24 sq. ft. per person, and that the resulting density is not better than 40 sq. ft. per person;
(ii) if there is no qualified adjoining
tenant, then applications are invited from overcrowded tenants on that estate, and the room is allocated in priority of overcrowding.
The notice of 20th July 1975 to which you refer invited specific applications for the telancy of vacant rooms where no adjoining tenant qualified for the rooms under the normal rules. Those latter rules about adjoining tenancies are also posted in the Tsz Wan Shan Estate as in others, and the rules are widely known and wider -stood by tenants.
CHEUNG Kwok-kuen, Esq.,
6i. /F, Police Married quarters, Police Training School, Aberdeen,
Hong Kong. (With Chinese translation)