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"THERE ARE ABOUT 1,000 SUCH PLACES ΤΟ WHICH STREET-SLEEPERS MAY BE REFERRED. THOSE SEEKING ACCOMMODATION, INCLUDING SINGETONS, MAY ALSO BE HELPED UNDER THE COMPASSIONATE REHOUSING PROGRAMME IN WHICH 900 FLATS ARE RESERVED EACH YEAR BY THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT FOR ALLOCATION ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE
WELFARE DEPARTMENT,
HE SAID.
SOCIAL
NR LIAO POINTED OUT THAT NEARLY 45 PER CENT OF THE
HOUSING AND TERRITORY'S POPULATION LIVED IN PUBLIC
THAT HONG KONG SHOULD BE JUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF THIS REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT,
"OVER THE PAST 30 YEARS, GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTING A
PROGRAMME PUBLIC HOUSING
DESIGNED TO ENSURE THAT THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS AND INADEQUATELY HOUSED, ARE PROVIDED WITH PROPER HOUSING AN AFFORDABLE RENT OR PRICE," MR LIAO SAID.
AT
"THIS IS ACHIEVED THROUGHT THE ALLOCATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS TO APPLICANTS ON THE WAITING LIST, CLEARANCE AND REHOUSING FOR SQUATTERS, REDEVELOPMENT OF OLDER PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES, PROVISION OF TEMPORARY HOUSING AREAS AND SALE OF HOME OWNERSHIP SCHEME FLATS, HE ADDED.
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AND
LIVING 280,000
"IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THERE ARE 430,000 LAND SQUATTERS IN THE TERRITORY, OF WHOM 150,000 ARE IN THE URBAN AREAS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES," HE SAID.
"OF THE URBAN SQUATTERS,
-
SLOPES, HE ADDED.
32,000 ARE LIVING ON DANGEROUS
MR LIAO SAID GOOD PROGRESS WAS BEING OF 35,000.
IN MADE
REHOUSING THIS, 11,000 WERE
IN
SQUATTERS AT AN ANNUAL RATE OF ABOUT BEING CLEARED FROM DANGEROUS SLOPES AND AT THIS RATE ALL SQUATTERS THIS CATEGORY SHOULD BE REHOUSED BY 1991.
REMAINING URBAN
SQUATTERS WOULD BE
"IT IS PLANNED THAT THE REHOUSED BY THE MID-1990S, HE SAID.
"
WITHIN VARIOUS THERE WERE ABOUT 7,000 MARINE SQUATTERS LIVING
THEM TYPHOON SHELTERS, AND OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS, MORE THAN HALF OF
BY DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE REHOUSED
CLEARANCES, WHILE THE REMAINDER WOULD BE REHOUSED THROUGH NON-DEVELOPMENT CLEARANCES BY THE MID-1990S, MR LIAO SAID.
ON
LIVING CONDITIONS FOR SQUATTERS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES WERE
MANY OF THE STRUCTURES WERE THE WHOLE BETTER AND
BUILT OF MORE SUBSTANTIAL MATERIALS WITH ONLY A FEW SITUATED ON HILLSIDES.
THE IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED WERE MAINLY IN THE PROVISIONS OF BASIC
UNDER FACILITIES AND THESE WERE BEING PROVIDED
VARIOUS PROGRAMMES,
MR LIAO SAID.
/HE SAID