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Housing Society provides flats for public housing

Following is a question by the Hon Chan Yuen-han and a written reply by the Secretary for Housing, Mr Dominic Wong, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

Does the Government know:

(a)

(b)

(c)

Answer:

Mr President,

of the total number of rental flats provided by the Hong Kong Housing Society (the Society) to the Hong Kong Housing Authority for allocation to the applicants on the Public Housing Waiting List in the past five

years;

whether the Society will continue to make rental flats available for rehousing people affected by the Urban Renewal Scheme; if so, how the Society will determine the number of such flats; and

whether the Society will reduce the number of rental flats to be produced in its development plan for the next five years; if so, what the reasons are and whether this will aggravate the problem of an inadequate supply of public rental flats?

In the past five years (1991-92 to 1995-96), the Hong Kong Housing Society provided about 3,100 rental flats for allocation to applicants on the Waiting List maintained by the Housing Authority.

2.

In the next five years (1996-97 to 2000-01), the Hong Kong Housing Society will build 3,200 rental flats, with 2,000 earmarked for rehousing people affected by urban renewal projects of the Land Development Corporation.

3. Subject to the provision of suitable land by the Government, the Hong Kong Housing Society will continue to produce rental flats. The combined production of public rental flats planned by the Housing Authority and the Housing Society over the six-year period up to March 2001 will enable us to meet the target of producing 141,000 public rental flats.

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