Squatters on land required for development
Urban
New Territories
100,000
20,000
120,000
Squatters on land not required for 30,000 development
150,000
4.
The resettlement commitment over the next five
years is estimated at 500,000 and is made up by:
Urban squatters
100,000
New Territories squatters
20,000
Compassionate cases
48,000
Dangerous huts
2,000
Rent Advance Scheme
9,000
(pre-war buildings now dangerous)
Clearance of cottage areas
20,000
Re-use of licenced areas
120,000
Relief of overcrowding in
180,000
Existing estates
Pavement dwellers
1,000
500,000
5. Although housing for 1,040,000 people will be
provided during the next five years, the squatter
situation at the end of that period would appear to
be:
Estimated Total of squatters
Less to be rehoused
700,000
150,000
550,000
Remaining squatters in 1976
This is still a formidable total but, with a
programme of rehousing a quarter of the population
of the Colony by 1976, it appears that the 550,000
remaining squatters will remain in their present
situation. The Governor points out, however, that
not all squatters are poor or badly housed in their
huts or anxious to move. Many are happy as they are
and, unless the land they occupy is required for
development, forcible clearance would not be
justified.
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