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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1994

SOME

I

WERE

YOU

THINK Ι GOVERNOR:

THE

DOES AUTHORITY HOUSING

DESERVE APPLAUSE SOMETIMES AS WELL. WHERE WE AND MOSTLY THEY ARE SPENDING THINK 400 PER CENT IN REAL TERMS MORE ON HOUSING TODAY THAN THEY TEN YEARS AGO. SO EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE PROBLEMS WHICH REMAIN AS

THINK ONE SHOULD MENTIONED MADAM, AND DIFFICULT PROBLEMS, I DON'T

LET ME SAY EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE IGNORE THE PROGRESS THAT'S BEEN MADE. DOING AND WHAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO DOING AND THEN POINT OUT TO YOU IT USED TO BE WHAT THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IN MEETING THE OBJECTIVE IS.

TEMPORARY HOUSING THE CASE THAT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY RE-DEVELOPED

TO NEED AUTHORITY

HOUSING AREA SITES ACCORDING SITE, TEMPORARY

OF

CLEARING

OF

ACCORDING TO DEVELOPMENT NEED. AND WHAT THAT MEANT WAS THAT SOME

SANITARY THE OLDEST TEMPORARY HOUSING AREAS WHICH PROVIDED THE LEAST

IN BY AND LEAST SATISFACTORY CONDITION WERE CONTINUING TO BE LIVED

THOUGHT PEOPLE AND I SAW SOME OF THOSE TEMPORARY HOUSING AREAS AND I THEY WERE PRETTY DEPLORABLE. SO WE HAVE NOW CONCENTRATED ON ALL THE OLDER TEMPORARY HOUSING AREAS FIRST. WE WILL CLEAR SEVEN THE 11 REMAINING PRE-1984 TEMPORARY HOUSING AREAS DURING THE COURSE OF OF THE OLDER THIS

AND WE WILL CLEAR THE LAST FOUR FINANCIAL YEAR

WE ALSO REMAIN ON TARGET TO TEMPORARY HOUSING AREAS NEXT YEAR.

BY RE-HOUSING TO ALL TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA TENANTS BY 1997. THIS YEAR, WE'D OFFERED RE-HOUSING TO OVER 30 PER CENT OF ALL LIVING IN TEMPORARY HOUSING AREAS IN OCTOBER 1993.

IN

-

—

OFFER AUGUST

PEOPLE

YOU MENTIONED EVEN WITH THE VERY BEST IN THE IMMEDIATE

LIVING.

AND I IN

A

BUT THAT'S WHERE WE COME TO THE PROBLEM WHICH BECAUSE SOMETIMES, IT'S EXTREMELY DIFFICULT

RE-HOUSING WILL

THE WORLD TO OFFER PEOPLE VICINITY OF THE TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA IN WHICH THEY'VE BEEN IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF ANY TERRIBLE BUREAUCRATIC DISEASE ON THE PART OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY; IT'S A FACT OF DEVELOPMENT IN HONG KONG.

PERHAPS LIVING UNDERSTAND THAT VERY OFTEN SOMEBODY WHO IS TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA, HOME, IN KOWLOON, AND IS OFFERED RE-HOUSING IN BUT IT IS EXTREMELY THE NEW TERRITORIES, ISN'T VERY KEEN ON GOING,

PEOPLE DIFFICULT NOT ONLY TO OFFER PEOPLE ACCOMMODATION BUT TO OFFER

PRECISELY THE ACCOMMODATION OF PRECISELY THE SORT THAT THEY WANT IN AREA THAT THEY WANT. WE'VE OBVIOUSLY GOT TO TRY AS HARD AS WE CAN BUT CAN THE PRIORITY MUST BE TO OFFER PEOPLE RE-HOUSING AND HOPE THAT WE

IN. OFFER THEM RE-HOUSING IN PLACES THAT THEY WANT TO BE STILL BE ABLE TO OFFER ALL THA TENANTS AND AT LEAST ONE OFFER OF HOUSING BY 1997 AND I HOPE MOST OF THEM WILL HAVE MOVED OUT OF THAS BY THEN. WE'LL CERTAINLY HAVE GOT RID OF ALL THE OLDER TEMPORARY HOUSING AREAS BY THE END OF THE NEXT FINANCIAL YEAR AND THAT'S AS

PROVIDED IN THEM, SHOULD BE BECAUSE THE STANDARD OF ACCOMMODATION PARTICULARLY THE OLDER ONES, IS A GREAT DEAL LESS GOOD THAN ANY OF SHOULD WANT TO SEE PEOPLE IN HONG KONG IN THE 1990'S LIVING IN.

WE WILL

RE-

THE

IT

US

ARE ON THE ELDERLY, I'D JUST LIKE TO MAKE TWO POINTS AND THEY

REPORT ON BOTH DEALT WITH IN A LOT MORE DETAIL IN THE WORKING GROUP

FIRST OF ALL, WE THE ELDERLY WHICH CAME OUT AT THE END OF LAST WEEK.

SINGLE ELDERLY ON THE WILL

BEEN HAVE

ABLE TO RE-HOUSE ALL 4,000

WAITING

WE ARE SECONDLY, LIST BY 1997. HOUSING AUTHORITY

GIVING AFTER AN PRIORITY WHERE WE CAN, TO THOSE FAMILIES THAT ARE LOOKING

OF ELDERLY RELATIVE, AND WERE ABLE TO REDUCE SUBSTANTIALLY THE AMOUNT

SO I HOPE THAT WE TIME THEY WILL HAVE TO SPEND ON THE WAITING LIST.

AS PROVIDE THE CAN

BETTER HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY AS WELL PROVIDE

BUT I HOUSING WHICH TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA TENANTS NEED AND REQUIRE.

THE ONE HAVE ΤΟ SAY THAT THE DIFFICULTY ON THE FORMER POINT IS DESCRIBED. YOU CAN'T ALWAYS OFFER SOMEBODY HOUSING EXACTLY WHERE THEY WANTED IT.

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