HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY 5B4A
PRESS
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Thursday, December 9, 1976
RENTS IN NEW ESTATES KEPT DOWN TO ACCEPTABLE LEVEL
Rents in new housing estates have been kept down to a level
which the great majority of people offered new homes in them can
comfortably afford, a spokesman for the Housing Authority said today.
"More than 80 per cent of families offered housing in these
much-improved estates not only can afford the rents but are very happy
with their accommodation," said the spokesman.
"Many of these people come from redevelopments or clearances
and like all tenants of these new estates are glad to have the chance
to begin a new life in well-planned estates set in healthy outdoor
surroundings where all facilities are virtually on the doorstep."
The spokesman stressed that if any tenants in new estates
had over-reached themselves financially they could approach the estate
manager and ask to be transferred to a cheaper estate,
"However, any such cases are likely to be quite exceptional
since every individual housing case is given the most sympathetic
consideration and the whole position, financial and otherwise, is
outlined to prospective tenants before they make their choice."
In addition, said the spokesman, there was a growing inter-
change of flats arranged by the Tenants' Mutual Exchange Bureau whose
services were available to all tenants of the Authority.
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