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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1991

ON THE OTHER

ORGANISATIONS WOULD

HE

HAND, CHARGE RENTS

HOSTELS MANAGED BY SAID.

VOLUNTARY AT AFFORDABLE LEVELS AND WOULD HIGHER ACCOMMODATE, FIRST OF ALL, THOSE LODGERS WHO COULD NOT PAY THE RENTS OF COMMERCIALLY RUN BEDSPACE APARTMENTS.

"WE MAY

HAVE

TO

INTRODUCE

A

MEANS

TEST

TO DIFFERENTIATE AFFORD ΤΟ PAY THE FREE

BETWEEN THOSE WHO CAN AND THOSE WHO CANNOT MARKET RENT, "HE EXPLAINED.

DID NOT INTEND ΤΟ CONTROLS UNTIL THERE WERE AVAILABLE FOR THE DISPLACED

MR TSAO ALSO STRESSED THAT THE GOVERNMENT SUBJECT BEDSPACE APARTMENTS TO LICENSING SUFFICIENT ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION LODGERS.

THE

ACTIONS WILL "IN THE MEANTIME, AS AND WHEN HOSTELS ARE SET UP, BE CAREFULLY SYNCHRONISED BY THE DEPARTMENTS CONCERNED TO ENFORCE

ORDINANCE AGAINST BEDSPACE FIRE SERVICES ORDINANCE AND THE BUILDING APARTMENTS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

"OUR PLANNED ACTION IS NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE PERFECT ANSWERS. WHAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING ARE PRACTICAL MEASURES WHICH WILL RESULT IN SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE LIVING CONDITION OF THE 4,000 PEOPLE, BUT CAGED MEN OFTEN PERHAPS SLIGHTLY UNCHARITABLY NONETHELESS AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION,

DESCRIBED

HE SAID.

AS

BEFORE OUTLINING THE PACKAGE OF MEASURES, MR TSAO DISCUSSED THE OUT NATURE OF THE PROBLEM AND THE PRINCIPAL CONSIDERATIONS IN MAPPING THESE MEASURES.

THE

BEDSPACE

APARTMENT ISSUE

WAS

COMPLEX

A HE NOTED THAT SUBJECT AND DID NOT LEND ITSELF TO EASY OR READY-MADE SOLUTIONS.

"THE ACTION

PLAN,

AS

DEVISED

WITHIN

THE

HE SAID: ADMINISTRATION. TAKES ACCOUNT OF A NUMBER OF PRINCIPAL CONSIDERATIONS:

(A)

(B)

BEDSPACE

BE IN

APARTMENTS SHOULD POPULATION THAT THE

A FROZEN

CURRENT

LEGISLATION AND AT

THROUGH LEVELS,

INDEED THAT SYSTEM OF LICENSING. SUCCESSIVE SURVEYS SHOW

IN THIS IS A PRACTICAL MEASURE BECAUSE THE POPULATION IS FACT A DIMINISHING ONE, NOT AN EXPANDING ONE;

MUST BE REDUCED BE INSTALLED AND то

THAT THE POPULATION IN THESE APARTMENTS SO AS TO ENABLE SAFETY MEASURES TO ENSURE THAT THE LIVING CONDITIONS ARE VASTLY IMPROVED:

(C)

FOR REHOUSING

THAT PEOPLE DISPLACED IN THIS NOT BECOME HOMELESS. THIS WILL SUFFICIENT HOSTELS TO ACCOMMODATE OCCUPANTS QUALIFIED

OUT THINNING

INVOLVE THE

IN

THE

PUBLIC

EXERCISE DO CREATION OF WHO ARE NOT ON HOUSING

COMPASSIONATE GROUNDS;

(D)

THAT SUCH HOSTELS SHOULD BE PROPERLY MANAGED SO THAT

DO NOT THEMSELVES DETERIORATE, TO REPEAT ITSELF;

THEY

THEREBY ALLOWING HISTORY

/(E)

THAT THE