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Appendix XXXV
(Chapter 8: Land and Housing)
Housing as at March 31, 1968
(Extract from Appendix C of the Housing Board Report for 1967-8)
Persons
Domestic units
accom-
Increase
over
modated
31.3.67
Permanent
Housing Authority
23,400
153,300
3,800
Housing Society
...
17,400
124,500
12,500
Government low-cost housing
20,300
103,300
18,800
Resettlement estates and cottage
areas
199,300
1,040,200
106,500
Government quarters
12,000
78,900
4,300
Residual (mainly private)
314,000
1,542,000
3,000
Temporary
Squatters (Urban)
75,900
392,600
57,600
Squatters (New Territories)
+
37,300
199,500 + 6,400
Permittees
32,900
169,400 + 5,100
Marine
21,400
102,800
Colony Total
753,900 3,906,500
+ 96,800
Premiums received on sales of Crown Land
from 1851 to 1967-8
=
The system of disposing of leasehold land by public auction for a premium began in 1851 in accordance with the Secretary of State's Despatch No 222 of January 2, 1851. Where premiums are payable by instalments, only the amounts actually received have been included in the annual totals.
-
" 1860 ... 1870..
Period
1851 1861
1871
1881
-
1890.
· 1880
·
6A
$
Total
1891 - 1900...
1901 – 1910.
―
1911 - 1920 ..
1921
- 1930.
1931 1941 (25.12.41) 1946-7 1955-6 (10 years)
-
1956-7 1960-1 (5 years)
―
1961
· 1962 (1 year)
1962
· 1963 (1 year)
1963
1964 (1 year)
1964
1965 (1 year)
1965
1966 (1 year)
1966
1967 (1 year)
1967
TIT
1968 (1 year)
Grand Total
...
...
...
...
***
262,839.00
477,908.14
125,097.53
856,160.12
2,501,053.65
2,839,324.49
2,715,724.38
17,053,140.35
12,936,727.68
67,617,711,64
177,375,655.35
107,225,301.38
234,402,780.18
207,157,985.13
143,295,983.24
75,859,685.12
50,623,349.27
43,785,984.08
$1,147,112,410.73