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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988

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OBJECTIVES OF HOUSING AUTHORITY

THE

USE ITS

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A

PURSUE THESE COMMAND AND TO TO ACHIEVE

WHILE THE GOVERNMENT DETERMINES THE MAJOR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES,

GIVEN IS

HAND TO HOUSING AUTHORITY

FREER OBJECTIVES WITH ALL THE VIGOUR AND ENTHUSIASM IT CAN

PURPOSEFULLY MAXIMUM RESULTS, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE AUTHORITY, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

RESOURCES AS

IMAGINATIVELY AND

ZONTA CLUB, SIR DAVID IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OF A HOUSING AUTHORITY,

A MORK INDEPENDENT

SPEAKING AT A LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE

1973

FOR SAID THAT IN

THE RESPONSIBILITY HOUSING PROGRAMME WAS UNIFIED IN THE HANDS OF AND IN APRIL THIS YEAR, THIS AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN ROLE TO CARRY OUT GOVERNMENT'S STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES IN THIS FIELD.

REFERRING TO

CALLS

FOR THE

HOUSING

AUTHORITY

TO BE A INDEPENDENT COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT AUTHORITY, HE SAID: "TO BE TOTALLY

NO LONGER BEING ABLE TO AS SOME CRITICS HAVE SUGGESTED WOULD MEAN

THAT RELY ON THE GOVERNMENT FOR ALLOCATIONS OF LAND AND IT WOULD MEAN THE AUTHORITY WOULD BE UNABLE

AUTOMATICALLY ON GOVERNMENT FUNDS TO MEET ANY DEFICIT CAUSED BY RAISING PRICES AND COSTS.

RELY

THE

MEAN THAT RENTS "IF THAT HAPPENED, IT WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE TO BE INCREASED TO COVER ANY SHORTFALL, EITHER THAT OR PROGRAMME WOULD HAVE TO BE CUT BACK.

CONTINUE TO IT LEGISLATURE

COUNCILS.

"IT SEEMS OBVIOUS THAT IF THE AUTHORITY WISHES TO FUNDS FROM PUBLIC

PROVIDED BY THE ENJOY SUPPORT CLEARLY MUST BE ANSWERABLE TO THE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE IT COULD NEVER BE COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT.

CHAIRMAN

THAT

OUT POINTED THE

IN

OF EACH

THE AREAS OF THE SUCH AS

AND FINANCE, RESPONSIBILITY

MANAGEMENT, CONSTRUCTION

WOMEN AUTHORITY HAS THE SUPPORT, ADVICE AND DECIDING VOICE OF MEN AND

DEEP APPRECIATION OF WHO HAVE, BY THEIR EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE, A THE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION THE PUBLIC HOUSING MAKES TO THE OF THE GREAT COMMUNITY OF HONG KONG PEOPLE.

WELL-BEING

NOW SIR DAVID SAID THAT 47 PER CENT OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG

LIVE IN TEMPORARY HOUSING OF LIVE IN PUBLIC HOUSING, SIX PER CENT VARIOUS KINDS, AND 47 PER CENT LIVE IN PRIVATE HOUSING.

THE RENTAL ON THE HOUSING AUTHORITY'S DOMESTIC RENTS, HE SAID

THE MARKET RENT LEVEL OF ITS NEW ESTATES IS JUST ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF

WHILE RENT LEVELS OF OF COMPARABLE PREMISES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, OLDER PUBLIC HOUSING REPRESENT ABOUT ONE-SIXTH TO ONE-EIGHTH OF MARKET RENTS.

HAS SIR DAVID EMPHASISED THAT DESPITE THE IMMENSE EFFORT WHICH

35-YEAR PERIOD, THERE REMAINED SQ GONE INTO PUBLIC HOUSING OVER A MUCH STILL TO BE DONE.

THIS FFORT