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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1987

FOR HE SAID HIS OWN VIEW WAS THAT PROCEDURES SHOULD BE DEVISED

CLEANED UP AT REGULAR LONG-HAIRED AND FILTHY STREET-SLEEPERS TO BE

OFF THE STREETS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS, MANNER WHICH WOULD MAKE

INTERVALS BUT THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BE FORCIBLY KEPT AGAINST THEIR WILL UNLESS THEY WERE

DRUG RELATED PROBLEMS, ALCOHOLISM, OR IN A THEM A DANGER TO PUBLIC ORDER.

ON COMMENTING PREPARED BY THE SOCIAL

THE

DIFFERENT TYPES

OF

STREET

SLEEPERS,

APPROACHES

WOULD

HAVE

TO

BE THOUGHT

ANNUAL REVIEW OF STREET

DEPARTMENT WHICH WELFARE

MR CHEONG-LEEN AND

UP

SPECIAL

SLEEPERS 1986 LISTED OUT THE SAID SPECIAL OF

FORMS

THE EVENTUAL

ASSISTANCE FOR THEM WOULD HAVE TO BE IMPROVED UPON WITH AIM OF PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION OFF THE STREETS FOR CATEGORIES SUCH

OR ALCOHOLISM, THE DRUG ADDICTS, THOSE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS OR ILL HEALTH, THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED, OR THE BLIND.

AS

DEPARTMENT HOUSING

TO MAKE AVAILABLE AN HE ALSO ASKED THE

RESETTLE IF NEEDED

STREET SLEEPERS TO ADDITIONAL QUOTA

SURVEYED CLAIMED THAT THEY OF THEM STREETS, AS NEARLY HALF

AFFORD THE FORCED TO BE STREET SLEEPERS BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT RENT.

OFF

THE

WERE

HIGH

THAT GOVERNMENT

WHEREEVER

THE

POSSIBLE

PROBLEMS OF AGENCIES, WHICH

MR CHEONG-LEEN TOLD PROGRAMMES TO BE IMPLEMENTED TO RESOLVE THE MULTIFARIOUS STREET-SLEEPERS SHOULD BE FARMED OUT AMONG VOLUNTARY WHERE NORMALLY CAPABLE OF GREATER FLEXIBILITY AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS.

ADDED

WHERE

INTO

THE SPECIALISED AND SUPPORTED BY

FULL

VOLUNTARY WAS THOSE TENDENCIES WHO

PLAY

HE

THAT ANOTHER AREA

GOVERNMENT, OF RESOURCES CO-ORDINATED

WOULD

TO COME HAVE ORGANISATIONS, STREET-SLEEPERS WITH PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS AND VIOLENT REQUIRED REGULAR MEDICAL SUPERVISION.

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FIRM COMMITMENT URGED TO TACKLE PROBLEMS OF HOMELESS

YIN-FAT TODAY THE COMMUNITY FRONTS WAS NEEDED

COUNCIL MEMBER THE HON HUI LEGISLATIVE (WEDNESDAY) SAID FIRM COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT AND TO TACKLING THE PROBLEM OF STREET SLEEPERS ON ALL TO ERADICATE THIS SOCIAL ILL THAT TARNISHED HONG KONG'S IMAGE.

LEGISLATIVE SPEAKING IN THE

COUNCIL DURING THE ADJOURNMENT AT THE MOMENT, DEBATE ON SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS, MR HUI SAID THAT VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS WERE DEALING WITH THE MANY PROBLEMS OF STREET SLEEPERS BY TAKING A PIECEMEAL, REMEDIAL APPROACH.

AND VARIED

/HE SAID