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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY EXEZA®

PRESS RELEASE

新聞稿

Sunday, 24th October 1976

OLD ESTATES POPULATION SLOWLY DECLINING

The population of the older Group B estates is slowly declining

while that of newer estates is rising, a Housing Authority spokesman said

today.

He said that there were 1,178,066 people living in these estates

in August, 1975, but this figure had dropped more than 34,000 by August

this year.

In the newer (Group A) estates, the number of persons had gone

up from 623,352 to 694,745, an increase of 71,393 during the 12-month

period.

The number of Group A flats had also risen substantially from

113,239 to 125,999 during the same period,

Average density in the older accommodation was 5.93 persons per

flat, compared to 5.51 persons per flat in the new blocks.

The spokesman said that, in the first five months of the

financial year, 5,172 flats had been allocated to a total of 21,161

persons, of whom the largest number (6,037) came from the waiting list,

More than 5,000 people had been rehoused through the Authority's scheme

to relieve overcrowding. Almost 110,000 waiting list applications are

awaiting investigation.

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