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renting
them. At
present,
42
41% of Hong Kong families own
their own homes. As a result of the Authority's imaginative
we can expect the number to rise steadily during the
years ahead.
ideas,
73.
The Housing Authority
aims
to
produce 527,000
public housing flats for rental and sale between now and
the year 2001. This is an ambitious target. The Government
will do its best to find the new land required and to
infrastructure. necessary
Our
planners
and
are hard at work already. Maintaining our housing
provide
engineers
the
programme
will
Government.
an remain
important
priority
for the
(£) The Environment
74.
Last October I spoke at some length about the
various pollution problems that we face and our
determination to tackle them. A White Paper on Pollution,
set out in detail
published
in June,
proposals
for a
comprehensive programme of action over the next ten years.
We have already begun to implement these. The Planning,
Environment and Lands Branch, which came into being last
month, will give a fresh impetus to our efforts to improve
the environment.
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