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Housing Authority manages 162 public housing estates

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

Question:

Does the Government know of:

(a)

(b)

the respective numbers of housing blocks and units in each of the public housing estates under the management of the Housing Authority; and

the respective annual total repair and maintenance costs of each public housing estate in the past five years?

Answer:

Mr President,

The Housing Authority manages 162 public rental housing estates comprising 1,239 blocks or 663,383 flats.

The annual repair and maintenance expenditure of these estates in the recent five years is as follows -

1992-93

1993-94

1994-95

1995-96

1996-97 (estimated)

$ million

Not available

1,788

2,333

2,467

1,953

Information on each estate is at Annex.