HOUSING, RESETTLEMENT AND TOWN PLANNING
employment. Now they are to be offered emergency accommodation constructed at the public expense and let out at a reasonable rental. But the earlier form of resettlement has not been discontinued and throughout the year resettlement in temporary huts or cottages has proceeded on areas of Crown land unlikely to be required for permanent development for some time. In round figures the population statistics are as follows:-
Settlers accommodated in temporary. structures not built by Government.
Settlers accommodated at a monthly rental in temporary structures built by Government
Settlers accommodated at a monthly rental in permanent six-storey structures built by Government
Total number of settlers
On 1st January, 1954.
On 31st December, 1954.
43,000
57,000
35,000
19,000
43,000
111,000
Town Planning
A preliminary planning report for Hong Kong was prepared by Sir Patrick Abercrombie in 1948, and this sets out the main lines along which long term development should proceed. The main intentions of this report have been followed but in view of the increase in population well beyond the limit of 2,000,000 envisaged in the report, and such major projects as the proposed new airfield and reclamations, some quite substantial alterations have been necessary. The main changes at present contemplated are large industrial centres at Tsun Wan and at Kun Tong on the east side
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