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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY SEBESA✿

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Friday, 6 August 1976

SQUATTER POPULATION CONTINUES TO DROP

Decrease of 136,633 in Twelve Years

The Kwun Tong district in Kowloon alone has more squatters than the whole of Hong Kong Island. This was revealed in the final results of the 1976 Squatter Control Survey conducted by the Housing

Department in June.

The two largest squatter areas are Sai Tau Village with 18,053 people and Diamond Hill with 13,254 people in Kowloon.

The distribution of the squatter population is as follows:

53,510 and 86,682, Hong Kong Island 81,334, Tsuen Wan

52,901.

Kwun Tong

Kowloon

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Most of the squatter areas on Hong Kong Island are located on the north-eastern part with 11,685 people living in Holy Cross Path Village, 5,799 in Tsin Shui Ma Tau Village, 2,838 in Shing On Village and 1,932 in Aldrich Village.

Similarly, the larger squatter areas in Kowloon are also found in the north-eastern sector with 7,500 people in Cha Kwo Ling, 5,000 in Lyeman and 4,842 in Sai Cho Wan.

"The survey results indicate that there has been a welcome decrease in the squatter population from 411,060 people in 1964, when the last general survey was carried out, to 274,427 people, representing a drop of 33 per cent," a spokesman for the department said,

There is another clear indication that fewer people are living in each squatter structure. The count shows that this has fallen to an average of 5.3 from the previous recorded figure of ten

in the 1964 survey.

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