HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY ƒBSAO
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Wednesday, October 1, 1975
HOUSING PROGRAMME MUST MOVE ON AS FAST AS POSSIBLE,
SAYS HOUSING AUTHORITY CHAIRMAN
The ten-year housing programme should press ahead as fast as
finances and other constraints permits, says Mr. Ian Lightbody, Chairman
of the Hong Kong Housing Authority, in his annual report for 1974/75
which was tabled in the Legislative Council today.
In his review of the year's activities. Mr. Lightbody said this
was evident as Hong Kong's population is always running ahead of the
available housing.
He said if the hundreds of thousands of other families now living
in sub-standard housing, often at excessively high rents, are to enjoy
public housing, the Authority must look to existing tenants for an
increasing contribution.
The chairman pointed out that to meet the expanding housing
programme, the Authority has to compete with other important social
programmes for the very large sums of money which have to be borrowed
from the Government.
Speaking on the building programme, Mr. Lightbody said construction was going ahead on ten new estates and detailed design work was being
completed on nine others at the end of the financial year.
Apart from building estates, the Housing Authority was also
looking into the possibility of raising the amenity standards.
"The new