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resources and by continued efforts to increase the
efficiency of the public service, the total size of
which has increased by just over 3 per cent in 1987.
(a)
Housing
SOCIAL PROGRAMMES
36.
The year 1987 saw the achievement of the
target, set by the Hong Kong Government in 1972, of
providing additional public housing for 1.8 million
people. A large part of this provision has been in
the new towns, the total population in which reached
2 million in 1987.
Government published its Long Term Housing Strategy.
This aims to provide increased opportunities for home
ownership to meet the aspirations of the population,
as well as to provide better quality public rental
accommodation, partly through a comprehensive
redevelopment programme for the older public housing
estates. It sets a new target of providing homes for
an additional one million families, from the public
and private housing sectors. combined, between 1985
and the beginning of the next century.
The Housing
In April, the Hong Kong
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