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in full
support
to
the
While I am
Committee's
recommendation of charging the tenants with improved financial
the situation
a
I urge
to Government
So
seriously
more
higher rent, consider increasing the proportion of Home Ownership Scheme flats
far
that such
as tenants
as possible, to accommodate rental flats may be vacated for people of the lower income group This is, in my view, who have definite and acute housing needs.
a logical approach to solving housing problems with the provision of better livelihood coupled with a sense of belonging for those citizens to live in their own property, who should be responsible elements of the community.
concerned very
about the substantial
annual I am
high cost deficit incurred by the Group B estates in view of the
and repair which reflect of
estates.
it is
may
not
improvements maintenance, far-reaching implications of sub-standard quality of design and
the deficit Although the older construction of steadily diminish as a result of the redevelopment programme and by being financed by a significant portion of the surplus in the
account, working
certainly non-domestic advisable that such subsidy should indefinitely continue, and it is important that measures should be taken urgently to make use of the surplus from the commercial premises and Group A estates to construct more housing units rather than further subsidize the existing tenants.
completed
estate
Sir, the Domestic Rent Policy Review Committee has now its review on the domestic rent policy which is based
on
that
thorough
conclusions.
incepted
and
in
cautious
1977.
The
Committee's
and I
generally agree
deliberations
with its
are
final
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