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"We would very much like to wave a magic wand to produce

all the housing that is needed overnight, but I prefer to be able to tell you that, like a jetliner, we have successfully taken off, you may now smoke, relax your seatbelts and we'll soon be cruising at

200,000 people a year."

Mr Liao said that, however, the production rate alone would not

solve all the housing problems and we still had to face many years before it could be said that everyone had an adequate home, "bearing in mind

the requirements for increasing standards."

He said that 60 per cent of the population were going to live

in public housing estates by the time the target was reached in the mid-eighties; over two million would be living in existing or currently

built flats.

"For the remainder, "he continued, "a range of 'third generation'

accommodation will be provided, offering a variety of facilities such as

one would expect to find in a town and these are what our estates

virtually are elsewhere in the developed world.

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"Housing standards in this third generation' accommodation will

continue to be improved. We have not the least intention of resting on

our laurels. We will be alive to trends; even now, we accept that the

modern estates going up all over Hong Kong, although substantially built,

may well become outdated in a couple of decades.

"It is certain that, in a dynamic society such as we have in

Hong Kong, our people are going to demand better living conditions and the Housing Authority will continue to do its best to see that these

aspirations are met."

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