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1.e. the Housing Authority (a statutory body)`

and the Housing Society (a voluntary organisation)

houses for 98,100 people having been provided-

in the preceding 12 months. Higher income

groups are provided for through these two

agencies (financed by Government loans) and by

private enterprise.

3. The present target of the Government

housing programme is to provide accommodation

in resettlement and low cost estates for a

590,000

further 700,000 people by 1975.

1975. It is hoped

that, by 1974, some 2:4 million of the 3,16-

million people in households in the lower income

polas

180.15.07

bracket (about HK$1000 (68.15.0) a month) will

be in Government or Government Aided housing.

The Housing Board

4.

A Housing Board was established in 1965

to advise the Governor on overall housing

policy, and to co-ordinate the execution of

housing programmes by Government, by semi-public

and by private development. The Board regularly

reviews the general housing situation, the

balance between the various types of housing

being constructed and the existing and probable

need for domestic housing over the next ten

years. Membership of the Board comprises

unofficials with experience in the Housing

authority, the Housing Society and private

housing development; and also officials with

responsibilities in the housing field.

The Housing Authority

able

5. This is a Statutory body established to

provide low cost accommodation for families in

the income range of £27.8.0d to £61.16.0d per

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