A.
SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
(a) Housing
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Let me now turn to the specific areas in which Hong
Kong families
can expect to see major improvements during
the next decade.
2000,
I will start with housing. By the year
it is likely that two out of every three families will
Own their Own homes.
means greater family cohesion;
deeper
This is an encouraging trend. It
commitment to Hong
Kong; and the reinforcement of individual responsibility and
self-respect.
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A more immediate aim is to eliminate the squatter
problem. Over the next five years or so, we will be able to
clear most of the squatter huts from the urban areas. This
achievement. All of us here can remember
will be a great
the
squatter-crowded
hillsides
of the 1960s and 1970s. We
should also have rehoused the majority of families living in
temporary housing.
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These are ambitious goals.
To achieve them, we
will need to build some 430,000 new public housing flats by
the year 2000.
We are currently on target. Last year's
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