Tuesday, January 2, 1973
MASSIVE RURAL LOW-COST HOUSING SCHEME
10,000 People In Outlying Island To Be Housed First
About 80,000 equatters and fishermen in the New Territories are
expected to be offered public housing when Government launches its rural
low-cost housing scheme this year.
More than 10,000 people living in shanty fishing villages in Cheung
Chau, Peng Chau and Tai O will be involved in the initial phase of the housing
project.
islands
Five rural low-cost housing estates are to be built on the three
three in different locations in Cheung Chau and one each in Peng
Chau and Tại Ô.
The Cheung Chau estates will accommodate about 5,000 people. The
estates in Peng Chau and Tai O will house some 2,000 and 3,000 people
respectively.
To suit the geographical features of the islands, two-storey buildings
will be built in the estates which will share a similar pattern of construction.
The flats, designed to be self-contained, will seek to fulfil the
present standards adhered to in government low-cost housing estates of provid-
ing a living space of 35 square feet per head.
The capacities of the flats will range from four-person to eight-
person units.
The District Officer, Islands, Mr. Mayer Ng, said today that a
nucleus of supporting services would be provided in the estates.
"We have
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