WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988
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OBJECTIVES OF HOUSING AUTHORITY
THE
USE ITS
*
A
PURSUE THESE COMMAND AND TO TO ACHIEVE
WHILE THE GOVERNMENT DETERMINES THE MAJOR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES,
GIVEN IS
HAND TO HOUSING AUTHORITY
FREER OBJECTIVES WITH ALL THE VIGOUR AND ENTHUSIASM IT CAN
PURPOSEFULLY MAXIMUM RESULTS, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE AUTHORITY, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
RESOURCES AS
IMAGINATIVELY AND
ZONTA CLUB, SIR DAVID IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OF A HOUSING AUTHORITY,
A MORK INDEPENDENT
SPEAKING AT A LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE
1973
FOR SAID THAT IN
THE RESPONSIBILITY HOUSING PROGRAMME WAS UNIFIED IN THE HANDS OF AND IN APRIL THIS YEAR, THIS AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN ROLE TO CARRY OUT GOVERNMENT'S STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES IN THIS FIELD.
REFERRING TO
CALLS
FOR THE
HOUSING
AUTHORITY
TO BE A INDEPENDENT COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT AUTHORITY, HE SAID: "TO BE TOTALLY
NO LONGER BEING ABLE TO AS SOME CRITICS HAVE SUGGESTED WOULD MEAN
THAT RELY ON THE GOVERNMENT FOR ALLOCATIONS OF LAND AND IT WOULD MEAN THE AUTHORITY WOULD BE UNABLE
AUTOMATICALLY ON GOVERNMENT FUNDS TO MEET ANY DEFICIT CAUSED BY RAISING PRICES AND COSTS.
RELY
THE
MEAN THAT RENTS "IF THAT HAPPENED, IT WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE TO BE INCREASED TO COVER ANY SHORTFALL, EITHER THAT OR PROGRAMME WOULD HAVE TO BE CUT BACK.
CONTINUE TO IT LEGISLATURE
COUNCILS.
"IT SEEMS OBVIOUS THAT IF THE AUTHORITY WISHES TO FUNDS FROM PUBLIC
PROVIDED BY THE ENJOY SUPPORT CLEARLY MUST BE ANSWERABLE TO THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE IT COULD NEVER BE COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT.
CHAIRMAN
THAT
OUT POINTED THE
IN
OF EACH
THE AREAS OF THE SUCH AS
AND FINANCE, RESPONSIBILITY
MANAGEMENT, CONSTRUCTION
WOMEN AUTHORITY HAS THE SUPPORT, ADVICE AND DECIDING VOICE OF MEN AND
DEEP APPRECIATION OF WHO HAVE, BY THEIR EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE, A THE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION THE PUBLIC HOUSING MAKES TO THE OF THE GREAT COMMUNITY OF HONG KONG PEOPLE.
WELL-BEING
NOW SIR DAVID SAID THAT 47 PER CENT OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG
LIVE IN TEMPORARY HOUSING OF LIVE IN PUBLIC HOUSING, SIX PER CENT VARIOUS KINDS, AND 47 PER CENT LIVE IN PRIVATE HOUSING.
THE RENTAL ON THE HOUSING AUTHORITY'S DOMESTIC RENTS, HE SAID
THE MARKET RENT LEVEL OF ITS NEW ESTATES IS JUST ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF
WHILE RENT LEVELS OF OF COMPARABLE PREMISES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, OLDER PUBLIC HOUSING REPRESENT ABOUT ONE-SIXTH TO ONE-EIGHTH OF MARKET RENTS.
HAS SIR DAVID EMPHASISED THAT DESPITE THE IMMENSE EFFORT WHICH
35-YEAR PERIOD, THERE REMAINED SQ GONE INTO PUBLIC HOUSING OVER A MUCH STILL TO BE DONE.
THIS FFORT