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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY XB4A✿

PRESS

新聞稿

BELEASE THĦ

Friday, November 12, 1976

CONSTRUCTION OF MODERNISED LICENSED AREAS IN FULL SWING

20 BEING DEVELOPED OR UNDER PLANNING

living conditions in licensed areas have been greatly improved

since the introduction of the new-style licensed areas with part-built

structures in mid-1974.

To date, more than 11,000 people are living in nine such

licensed areas.

These are Chai Wan II (Extension), Chai Wan IV, Ping Shek,

Kowloon Bay (2nd Village), Kowloon Bay (3rd Village), Homantin, Tai Wai,

Krai Hing and Yau Ma Hom (partly completed).

The Housing Department is currently building six similar licensed

areas to provide accommodation for another 16,300 people.

Two of them, at Yau Ma Hom and Shek Lei in the Tsuen Wan/

Kwai Chung area, will be completed before the end of the year and the

four others, in Ha Kwai Chung, Kowloon Bay, Tin Wan and Aplichau, will

be ready early next year.

Plans are also in hand for building another 13 licensed

areas of this type in the next twelve months.

They will provide homes for an additional 33,700 people.

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