also on a wide range of subjects concerning the development higher education in Hong Kong. Apart from advising on the need for a third university, it has also advised on a proposal of the University of Hong Kong to introduce an external degree programme. The UPGC is also considering the need for, and feasibility of, developing other forms of education in in
Kong, such as an open university and the extension
educational television.
Hong
of
(b) Housing
64.
The housing programme remains a high priority, and rightly so since better housing is one of the main aspirations of the people of Hong Kong. Some 240,000 new dwellings have been added to our total housing stock in the last four years, including more than 111,000 new flats built by the private sector, three-quarters of them occupied
them occupied by their owners. In
1982 alone, total public and private sector production was 67,000 flats, just below the record figure for 1981.
(i)
Public housing
65.
In the public sector, Some 130,000 flats are at present under construction, and between now and the end of this
decade over 300,000 flats will be produced for rent or sale. We should by then be able to provide decent homes for most if not all of those families who are now eligible for public housing.
66.
The problems of
of those families living
living in the oldest
resettlement blocks have not been
been ignored. The redevelopment
of the first resettlement estate, Shek Kip Mei, will be completed during 1984. Other old estates,
estates, such as Chai Wan, have already been largely transformed into modern estates. 1975, half a million people were living in Mark I and Mark II blocks. Some 300,000 of them have since benefitted from the
redevelopment and improvement programmes for those
In
estates.
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