HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY EXEZA®
PRESS RELEASE
新聞稿
Sunday, 24th October 1976
OLD ESTATES POPULATION SLOWLY DECLINING
The population of the older Group B estates is slowly declining
while that of newer estates is rising, a Housing Authority spokesman said
today.
He said that there were 1,178,066 people living in these estates
in August, 1975, but this figure had dropped more than 34,000 by August
this year.
In the newer (Group A) estates, the number of persons had gone
up from 623,352 to 694,745, an increase of 71,393 during the 12-month
period.
The number of Group A flats had also risen substantially from
113,239 to 125,999 during the same period,
Average density in the older accommodation was 5.93 persons per
flat, compared to 5.51 persons per flat in the new blocks.
The spokesman said that, in the first five months of the
financial year, 5,172 flats had been allocated to a total of 21,161
persons, of whom the largest number (6,037) came from the waiting list,
More than 5,000 people had been rehoused through the Authority's scheme
to relieve overcrowding. Almost 110,000 waiting list applications are
awaiting investigation.
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