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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1991
ON THE OTHER
ORGANISATIONS WOULD
HE
HAND, CHARGE RENTS
HOSTELS MANAGED BY SAID.
VOLUNTARY AT AFFORDABLE LEVELS AND WOULD HIGHER ACCOMMODATE, FIRST OF ALL, THOSE LODGERS WHO COULD NOT PAY THE RENTS OF COMMERCIALLY RUN BEDSPACE APARTMENTS.
"WE MAY
HAVE
TO
INTRODUCE
A
MEANS
TEST
TO DIFFERENTIATE AFFORD ΤΟ PAY THE FREE
BETWEEN THOSE WHO CAN AND THOSE WHO CANNOT MARKET RENT, "HE EXPLAINED.
DID NOT INTEND ΤΟ CONTROLS UNTIL THERE WERE AVAILABLE FOR THE DISPLACED
MR TSAO ALSO STRESSED THAT THE GOVERNMENT SUBJECT BEDSPACE APARTMENTS TO LICENSING SUFFICIENT ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION LODGERS.
THE
ACTIONS WILL "IN THE MEANTIME, AS AND WHEN HOSTELS ARE SET UP, BE CAREFULLY SYNCHRONISED BY THE DEPARTMENTS CONCERNED TO ENFORCE
ORDINANCE AGAINST BEDSPACE FIRE SERVICES ORDINANCE AND THE BUILDING APARTMENTS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.
"OUR PLANNED ACTION IS NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE PERFECT ANSWERS. WHAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING ARE PRACTICAL MEASURES WHICH WILL RESULT IN SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE LIVING CONDITION OF THE 4,000 PEOPLE, BUT CAGED MEN OFTEN PERHAPS SLIGHTLY UNCHARITABLY NONETHELESS AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION,
DESCRIBED
HE SAID.
AS
BEFORE OUTLINING THE PACKAGE OF MEASURES, MR TSAO DISCUSSED THE OUT NATURE OF THE PROBLEM AND THE PRINCIPAL CONSIDERATIONS IN MAPPING THESE MEASURES.
THE
BEDSPACE
APARTMENT ISSUE
WAS
COMPLEX
A HE NOTED THAT SUBJECT AND DID NOT LEND ITSELF TO EASY OR READY-MADE SOLUTIONS.
"THE ACTION
PLAN,
AS
DEVISED
WITHIN
THE
HE SAID: ADMINISTRATION. TAKES ACCOUNT OF A NUMBER OF PRINCIPAL CONSIDERATIONS:
(A)
(B)
BEDSPACE
BE IN
APARTMENTS SHOULD POPULATION THAT THE
A FROZEN
CURRENT
LEGISLATION AND AT
THROUGH LEVELS,
INDEED THAT SYSTEM OF LICENSING. SUCCESSIVE SURVEYS SHOW
IN THIS IS A PRACTICAL MEASURE BECAUSE THE POPULATION IS FACT A DIMINISHING ONE, NOT AN EXPANDING ONE;
MUST BE REDUCED BE INSTALLED AND то
THAT THE POPULATION IN THESE APARTMENTS SO AS TO ENABLE SAFETY MEASURES TO ENSURE THAT THE LIVING CONDITIONS ARE VASTLY IMPROVED:
(C)
FOR REHOUSING
THAT PEOPLE DISPLACED IN THIS NOT BECOME HOMELESS. THIS WILL SUFFICIENT HOSTELS TO ACCOMMODATE OCCUPANTS QUALIFIED
OUT THINNING
INVOLVE THE
IN
THE
PUBLIC
EXERCISE DO CREATION OF WHO ARE NOT ON HOUSING
COMPASSIONATE GROUNDS;
(D)
THAT SUCH HOSTELS SHOULD BE PROPERLY MANAGED SO THAT
DO NOT THEMSELVES DETERIORATE, TO REPEAT ITSELF;
THEY
THEREBY ALLOWING HISTORY
/(E)
THAT THE