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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1987

"ALL

THROUGH THE

COULD SOLVE IN THE HAVE PROBLEMS WHICH HONG KONG

PROVISION

MEDICAL OF

CARE, HOUSING, IMMEDIATE TERM,

WE HAVE THE PSYCHIATRIC CARE, COUNSELLING, FINANCIAL AID, AND JOBS. MEANS. WE LACK THE RESOLVE.

**

DEPARTMENT'S THEY COULD OR WERE EVICTED

SOCIAL WELFARE MR LI SAID THAT ACCORDING TO THE 1986 ANNUAL REVIEW, PEOPLE BECAME STREET SLEEPERS BECAUSE NOT AFFORD HIGH RENTS, QUARREL WITH THEIR FAMILIES, BY THEIR LANDLORDS.

THE REVIEW IS THAT THE STREET', HE ASKED HOW A ΤΟ ASSISTANCE AND UNDERSTANDING

A

"AMAZINGLY, ONE OF THE REASONS LISTED IN STREET SLEEPERS 'LIKED TO SLEEP IN DEPARTMENT WHICH PROFESSED TO OFFER STREET

COULD ACCEPT SUCH QUESTION.

SLEEPERS

REASON, APPARENTLY

WITHOUT

CASTS DOUBT ON "TO ME THE CONTINUED INCLUSION OF THIS REASON

THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT'S THE VALIDITY OF THE REVIEW, AND ON

OF STREET SLEEPERS, ABILITY ΤΟ UNDERSTAND

MENTALITY ULTIMATELY TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS. MOREOVER, IT IS CONTRARY TO FINDINGS."

THE

AND OTHER

SLEEPERS BY THE

MR LI SAID THAT FOR INSTANCE, OVER HALF OF 239 STREET INTERVIEWED IN SHAM SHUI PO IN JANUARY FOR A SURVEY CONDUCTED CITY POLYTECHNIC AND THE SHAM SHUI FO DISTRICT BOARD, WISHED PERMANENT HOUSING AND NONE SAID THEY LIKED BEING STREET SLEEPERS.

"MAY I RECOMMEND THAT

SOCIAL THE

WELFARE DEPARTMENT

HE SAID.

THEIR REVIEW METHODS AS A MATTER OF PRIORITY,'

ΤΟ

HAVE

REVIEW

REVIEW, THE SOCIAL WELFARE CHITS TO 197 "MORE ΤΟ LIKELY

ELIGIBLE FOR

MR I ALSO SAID THAT IN THE 1986

OUT NOTIFICATION OF PASSING DEPARTMENT TOLD

WHO WERE SLEEPERS VULNERABLE" STREET WELFARE SERVICES.

BE

STREET SLEEPERS TO APPROACH

THEY AIMED TO INDUCE SOME "THROUGH THIS DISTRIBUTION OF CHITS,

THE DEPARTMENT FOR

MAINLY ASSISTANCE, HEALTH, DRUG ADDICTED AND THOSE OVER 60, WHO WERE DISABLED, IN ILL EARNING LESS THAN $2,000 A MONTH."

WHO

STREET SLEEPERS, OR HE SAID THE REVIEW REPORTED THAT ONLY 19

RECEIVED CHITS,

TURNED UP FOR LESS THAN 10 PER CENT OF THOSE ASSISTANCE.

"DISTRIBUTING CHITS IS NOT

SOCIAL WELFARE. IT 19 MISPLACED BUREAUCRACY. IT IS THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT THAT MUST GO TO THE STREET SLEEPERS, INITIATE CONTACT AND FOLLOW THROUGH. NOT VICE VERSA.

IVORY TOWER,

ATTITUDE то

SUIT

"THE DEPARTMENT HAD BETTER CLIMB DOWN FROM THEIR REMOVE THEIR ROSE-TINTED GLASSES, AND CHANGE THEIR THE REAL WORLD, HE SAID.

"

MR LI