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Housing
General applicants are allocated PRH according to the order of their registrations and choice of districts. For non-elderly one-person applicants, priority under the QPS is determined by their age at the time of registration, waiting time and whether he or she has been residing in PRH. All applicants must meet the Housing Authority's residential requirements and satisfy the Comprehensive Means Test and the Domestic Property Test.
Eligible PRH applicants can be allocated PRH earlier by opting for less popular flats under the Express Flat Allocation Scheme. About 1,040 households benefited from this scheme in 2015.
About 240 eligible households whose squatter huts or rooftop structures were cleared by the government were rehoused in 2015.
Home Ownership
Subsidised sale flats
In response to the aspirations of low- to middle-income families for home ownership, the government provides subsidised sale flats as part of its housing policy. The first batch of 2,160 newly built HOS flats in five developments were sold by August 2015 and are expected to be completed in 2016-17.
In his 2015 Policy Address, the Chief Executive announced two sites in Tseung Kwan O and Tuen Mun had been set aside for the Housing Society to develop around 600 subsidised sale flats.
An interim scheme launched by the Housing Authority in 2013 allows 5,000 eligible White Form applicants (i.e. households who are not PRH tenants and meet the Housing Authority's eligibility criteria for subsidised sale flats) to buy flats in the HOS secondary market without paying the premium. More than 2,400 applicants achieved home ownership in the first round, which was completed in April 2015. The Housing Authority rolled out a new round of the scheme in August with a quota of 2,500. It received about 43,900 applications and issued approval letters. to successful applicants in early 2016. After this round is completed, the Housing Authority will conduct a comprehensive review of the scheme.
Green Form Subsidised Home Ownership Pilot Scheme
In his 2015 Policy Address, the Chief Executive proposed that the Housing Authority identify flats among PRH developments under construction for sale to Green Form applicants in the form of a pilot scheme, with prices set at a lower level than those of HOS flats. In May 2015, the Housing Authority selected a PRH project at San Po Kong, with about 860 flats, for conversion to the Green Form Subsidised Home Ownership Pilot Scheme. The flats are planned for pre-sale in the second half of 2016 and are expected to be ready for occupation in mid-2017.
Housing for People with Special Needs
Single elderly persons can apply for PRH under the Single Elderly Persons Priority Scheme, and can share a flat with unrelated elderly persons under the Elderly Persons Priority Scheme. The
Green Form applicants are mainly PRH tenants and PRH applicants who have passed the detailed eligibility vetting and are due for flat allocation in about a year's time.
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