HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY >RSA⭑
PRESS RELEASE
Summary of a Speech sade by the
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Secretary for Housing, Mr. Ian Lightbody,
at the Luncheon Meeting of the Lions Club of Kowloon today (Monday, November 15th) at the Peninsula Hotel
SECRETARY FOR HOUSING OUTLINES ENORMOUS.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF HOUSING AUTHORITY
The Secretary for Housing, Mr. Ian Lightbody, today
outlined the "enormous responsibilities" of the Hong Kong Housing
Authority, and the very great steps it has taken since being set
up in. 1973.
"It is a strange fact that a statutory body which has
such enormous responsibilities as the Housing Authority should
manage to operate so unobtrusively that, whenever public housing
matters crop up, the Fress and everyone else refers to Government
doing this or Government doing that in the public housing area, #
he said.
Mr. Lightbody, who was speaking to the Lions Club of
Kowloon at their luncheon meeting, said that the Authority took up
"a lot of headaches" when it was given control of the planning,
construction and management of all public housing in Hong Kong.
However, the change brought one great advantage, too
for the first time public housing was being handled as a single,
co-ordinated service allowing more flexible use of the whole range
of its housing stock.