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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY #DRZA♣

PRESS RELEASE

新聞稿

Wednesday, 29th September 1976

SQUATTER CLEARANCE IN TSUEN WAN COMPLETED SMOOTHLY

Families Offered Public Housing

Another smooth clearance operation has been completed by the Housing

Department at Teuen Wan to clear the site for the future Shing On Estate.

Typical of the 155 families who have recently moved either into Kwai

Shing or Lai King estates from squatter structures in Tsuen Wan is the Wong family,

comprising the grandmother and her grandson and grand-daughter.

They are now settling down with many of their former neighbours in Block

9, Kwai Shing Estate.

Mrs. Wong, the grandmother, said she was happy with what she had been

offered by the Housing Department and that she considered the rent of $180 a month

for the new flat to be very reasonable.

"I am most happy in finding that many of my former neighbours also live

in the same block and I enjoy very much the pleasant environment here," she said

today.

Satisfactory rehousing arrangements for other residents, fair compensation

to the cultivators, reasonable ex-gratia allowance or reprovisioning for the businesses

and industrial undertakings are the essential factors of a successful squatter

clearance.

This was exemplified in this latest

other human factors were carefully attended to.

clearance in which all these and

The clearance involved 274 structures, including 20 shops and workshops,

and over 100 pigsties and cultivators.

Mr. Lee Heung-cheuk, Senior Housing Manager in charge of the clearance,

described it as one of the smoothest operations he had experienced.

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