MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1983
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BUT HE ADDED THAT THESE HOUSEHOLDS WERE NOT ALL EQUALLY „TECTED BY THE RAPIDLY RISING PRICES OR RENTALS OF PRIVATE HOUSING IN RECENT YEARS.
*THE 1981 POPULATION CENSUS TELLS US THAT ABOUT ONE THIRD OF THESE HOUSEHOLDS WERE ALREADY LIVING IN PUBLIC OR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDISED HOUSING. SOME 63 PER CENT WERE LIVING IN PRIVATE PERMANENT HOUSING AND ANOTHER FIVE PER CENT IN TEMPORARY HOUSING.
+OF THE 136 000 HOUSEHOLDS LIVING IN PRIVATE PERMANENT HOUSING, EIGHT PER CENT WERE LIVING IN FLATS PROVIDED FREE OR ON A SUBSIDISED BASIS BY THEIR EMPLOYERS, 57 PER CENT WERE OWNER-OCCUPIERS AND 35 PER CENT WERE IN PRIVATE RENTED HOUSING.+
MR BREMRIDGE SAID IT WAS AMONG THE OWNER-OCCUPIERS AND THOSE RENTING PRIVATE ACCOMMODATION, THAT IS ABOUT 10 PER CENT OF ALL HOUSEHOLDS, THAT THOSE WHO WERE HARD PRESSED BY RISING PRICES AND RENTALS WOULD BE FOUND.
HOWEVER, HE SAID NOT ALL OF THE 126 000 HOUSEHOLDS WHICH THIS 10 PER CENT REPRESENTED WOULD HAVE BEEN EQUALLY AFFECTED.
+AMONG THE OWNER-OCCUPIERS, ONLY THOSE WHO, BECAUSE THEY PURCHASED THEIR HOMES FAIRLY RECENTLY, ARE COMMITTED TO PAYING OUT A HIGHER PROPORTION OF THEIR MONTHLY INCOMES IN MORTGAGE PAYMENTS WILL HAVE BEEN REALLY HARD PRESSED. UNTIL RECENTLY, HIGHER MORTGAGE INTEREST RATES, TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY RESULTED IN HIGHER MONTHLY PAYMENTS, WILL HAVE MADE THEIR PLIGHT WORSE.
+AMONG THOSE RENTING PRIVATELY, ABOUT 49 DOO HOUSEHOLDS, OR FOUR PER CENT OF THE TOTAL. WILL HAVE BEEN PROTECTED BY RENT CONTROL BUT OTHERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE BEGUN TO RENT THEIR FLATS IN RECENT YEARS, WILL HAVE BEEN HARD PRESSED,+ HE SAID.
PARENTS REMINDED ABOUT PRIMARY ONE PLACES
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PARENTS OF CHILDREN TAKING PART IN THE PRIMARY ONE ADMISSION SYSTEM'S CENTRAL ALLOCATION OF PLACES WERE REMINDED TODAY THAT WEDNESDAY (MARCH 30) WILL BE THE LAST DAY FOR THEM TO RETURN THE IR COMPLETED +CHOICE OF SCHOOLS+ FORMS.
THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S PRIMARY ONE ADMISSION UNIT HAD EARLIER ISSUED LETTERS TO THESE PARENTS ADVISING THEM TO GO TO SPECIFIED DISTRIBUTION/COLLECTION CENTRES BETWEEN MARCH 27 AND 30 TO COLLECT A CHOICE OF SCHOOLS+ FORM AND A LIST OF ALL GOVERNMENT AND AIDED PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN THEIR OWN DISTRICT.
/+THE COMPLETED