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Monday, April 2, 1973
NEW HOUSING DEPARTMENT TAKES SHAPE
The new Housing Department today started working as an integrated
housing administration.
It is an amalgamation of the former Housing Division (which
serviced the previous Housing Authority) and of the Resettlement Department.
The department will be the executive arm of the new Housing Authority
whose membership were announced on Saturday.
Its headquarters is the former Housing Division office block at
Ma Tau Wai Estate, Kowloon, which also houses the Architectural Division
and the Secretariat to the Housing Authority.
The headquarters of the Estates Management Division is now at
the Government Offices at San Po Kong.
This integrates the management of all public housing estates
under one roof, including estates built by the former Housing Authority,
Low Cost Housing Estates and Resettlement Estates.
The Applications Section, which formerly dealt only with Waiting
List applicants for public housing, is now located in the former Resettlement
Department headquarters in Middle Road, and will handle all applications
for public housing, including those from people cleared from land required
for development, and from dangerous buildings.
The Housing *****