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The Housing Authority has a total membership of 21 and 13 of these Unofficial Members appointed by the Governor. 8 of these 13 are Urban Councillors who had extensive experience of public housing in past years when members of the Urban Council were also automatically members of the former lousing Authority. That Authority built on a limited scale but built well. Its management standards were of a very high order, and the new Housing Authority has been fortunate indeed in inheriting these well-built and well-run estates - so very different from the old resettlement estates. The membership of the Authority includes several members of the Legislative Council who have had a deep, personal interest in public housing for many years,

to turn now to how the Housing 'thority organises its work, there are several functional committees which enjoy delegated authority to do what is necessary in their respective' fields. Perhaps I could mention first the Building Committee. This Committee has an Unofficial Chairman, as do all the Authority's Committees, and it carries very heavy responsibilities in approving new estate plans and in letting contracts for expenditure of a very large order indeed. This expenditure runs to hundreds of millions of dollars each year and the Authority is fortunate to have such a conscientious and hard-working Committee to accept these onerous duties. Perhaps I could give some indication of what it does by looking at the agenda of a recent Building Committee meeting. At this meeting, it accepted tenders for piling work for two new housing blocks at the Shek Kip Mei redevelopment scheme, where we have already rehoused about half of a total of 60,000 persons living in that old and overcrowded estate. It also discussed the Housing Department's proposals for layouts for the redevelopment of Chai Wan and Tai Hang Tung states. At Chai an, this is the first stage of a complete replacement of this old and overcrowded

to estate and involves the construction of 4 blocks of flats, house over 5,000 persons, and a commercial block. This will let the Authority get on with the redevelopment of the Chai Wan Estate, the population densities in which will be reduced

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