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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY 5B4A

PRESS

RELEASE TH

新聞稿

Thursday, December 9, 1976

RENTS IN NEW ESTATES KEPT DOWN TO ACCEPTABLE LEVEL

Rents in new housing estates have been kept down to a level

which the great majority of people offered new homes in them can

comfortably afford, a spokesman for the Housing Authority said today.

"More than 80 per cent of families offered housing in these

much-improved estates not only can afford the rents but are very happy

with their accommodation," said the spokesman.

"Many of these people come from redevelopments or clearances

and like all tenants of these new estates are glad to have the chance

to begin a new life in well-planned estates set in healthy outdoor

surroundings where all facilities are virtually on the doorstep."

The spokesman stressed that if any tenants in new estates

had over-reached themselves financially they could approach the estate

manager and ask to be transferred to a cheaper estate,

"However, any such cases are likely to be quite exceptional

since every individual housing case is given the most sympathetic

consideration and the whole position, financial and otherwise, is

outlined to prospective tenants before they make their choice."

In addition, said the spokesman, there was a growing inter-

change of flats arranged by the Tenants' Mutual Exchange Bureau whose

services were available to all tenants of the Authority.

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