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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for WRITTEN answer on 21 January 1977
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The draft reply should. reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
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Noon, Mouday
24 January 1977
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Mr Stanley Newens (Harlow): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make a statement on the policy of the Hong Kong Government on provision of accommodation for homeless families.
Mr Evan Hard
Homeless families are offered temporary housing in licensed areas where house water supply, electricity, recreation areas and proper management are all provided.
Where such accommodation is
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not immediately available, homeless families are temporarily housed, as an emergency arrangement, in transit centres before being offered places in licensed areas. A family is usually offered a public housing flat after about four years in a licensed area. Hong Kong Government has a long-term housing programme designed to minimize the future use of licensed areas, but in the meantime these areas are an indispensable means of accommodating homeless
families.
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