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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1987

THERE THAT

SHOULD BE

го

LEGISLATION

TO REMOVE SUCH

IT HAD BEEN SUGGESTED PREVENT STREET SLEEPING WHICH WOULD ENABLE THE AUTHORITIES THESE VAGRANTS FROM THE STREETS, BUT MR CHAMBERS DOUBTED WHETHER

PUBLIC SUPPORT IN A FREE AND OPEN A PROPOSAL WOULD RECEIVE MUCH SOCIETY SUCH AS HONG KONG.

NOT A

STRAIGHTFORWARD LEGISLATION, OR

WAS SLEEPING MR CHAMBERS SAID STREET ISSUE WHICH COULD BE DEALT WITH BY A SINGLE PIECE OF EVEN A SINGLE POLICY.

IN

LONG HISTORY SUCCEED IN ELIMINATING

"STREET SLEEPING JS A PROBLEM WHICH HAS A VERY HONG KONG, AND I DOUBT WHETHER WE SHALL EVER IT COMPLETELY,' HE SAID.

PA

"BUT I THINK IT IS TRUE

INTERNATIONAL

ΤΟ SAY THAT IN THIS

WE ARE MAKING A MORE CONCERTED YEAR OF SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS EFFORT TO HELP THESE UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE THAN HAS BEEN THE CASE IN THE PAST.

+

OFFERS OF HELP, BUT 'SOME STREET SLEEPERS MAY REJECT OUR THINK THAT OUR AIM SHOULD BE TO ENSURE THAT HELP IS AVAILABLE FOR

HE SAID. THOSE WHO NEED IT AND ARE PREPARED TO ACCEPT IT.

I

ALL

申申

STREET SLEEPING PROBLEM BEING TACKLED

FOR

OUT A CO-ORDINATED GOVERNMENT EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO WORK ENDEAVOUR TO TACKLE THE PROBLEM OF STREET SLEEPERS, THE SECRETARY

LIAO, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, THE HON DONALD COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

HOMELESS, WINDING UP THE ADJOURNMENT DEBATE ON SHELTER FOR THE

HAVE THE MR LIAO SAID FAVOURABLE TREATMENT FOR STREET SLEEPERS MIGHT

TAKE TO THE STREETS IN ORDER TO EFFECT OF ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO OBTAIN URBAN HOUSING.

HOUSING, STREET

SLEEPERS WOULD "LIKE MOST PEOPLE SEEKING

IS DIFFICULT PREFER TO BE REHOUSED IN THE URBAN AREAS. HOWEVER, THIS

ABLE-BODIED SINGLETONS, WHEN TO JUSTIFY PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE OF

TO MOVE MANY OTHERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR HOMES IN SQUATTER FIRES HAVE

REASON THAT ACCOMMODATION IN TO THE NEW TERRITORIES FOR THE SIMPLE

MR LEAO SAID, THE URBAN AREA IS LIMITED,'

M

ABLE-BODIED STREET SLEEPERS, SOME OF WHOM

WERE LIKELY TO NEARBY

FOR

MIGHT ALREADY HAVE BE SLEEPING ON THE STREET PERMANENT ACCOMMODATION,

OR WERE LOOKING

WORK

THE IN BECAUSE THEY HAD JOBS

A PLACE ΤΟ NEIGHBOURHOOD, WHILE THOSE WHO WERE DOWN-AND-OUT WITHOUT LIVE OR THOSE WHO APPEARED TO BE MENTALLY ILL WERE ACCOMMODATION IN SHELTERS RUN BY THE VOLUNTARY AGENCIES, HE ADDED.

OFFERED TEMPORARY SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT AND

THERE ARE