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rental units for sale to
will also see the Housing Authority offering good quality
sitting tenants. And the Home
Purchase Loan Scheme will continue to help more of the
Authority's tenants to buy their own homes.
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spacious
But
the demand for better-designed and more
flats, increasingly owner-occupied, cannot be met
by the Government alone. Indeed, it would be wrong for this
responsibility to fall on the public sector as heavily as it
has in the past. So we look to a further expansion of the
private sector's contribution. By the end of the decade, we
expect the private sector to be producing nearly half of all
new housing in Hong Kong.
(b) Education
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pressures
In
education, as
in housing, we are facing
both for improved basic standards and for greater
choice. The growing sophistication of our economy has put a
premium on better educated and better trained people. The
rapid growth of our services sector in the 1980s has created
an upsurge in demand for new skills and qualifications.
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Our