(ii) Once cleared, experience tells us
that other squatters would take over the
area in a flash in the absence of development.
We could not keep them off without the danger
of a degree of violence.
(iii) They would have to be assigned a
resettlement priority which could only be at
the bottom of the list. It would be a
long time (if ever) before we got around to
resettling them.
(b) Give the squatters some form of title to lots
on this unwanted land, and allow them to build
(with their own money if they have it) NT village
type' houses on patterns approved by the Building
Authority
On following the NT pattern in fact.
this the following points immediately occurred to
me:
(i) the difficulty of money to build with might possibly be overcome through the
Hong Kong Building and Loan Agency;
(ii) services (water, electricity, etc.)
would have to be provided to some agreed
extent;
(iii) allocation would virtually have to
be by grant; to which there are obvious
objections;
(iv)
many would simply sell the house and
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