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No. HK K 18/15 DRAFT
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
To:-
Top Secret. Secret.
Confidential.
HE Sir D Trench GCMG MC
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
..In Confidence
E O Laird
HONG KONG
Type 1 +
From
Sir L Monson
Telephone
No. & Ext.
Department
Thank you for your informative letter about
housing (of 7 January
The proposal te rehouse a
rehousing of
quarter of the population over the next six years is
ambitious
certainly anmeesive/ undertaking.
2.
Before we submit these proposals to Ministers we
should be grateful if you could clear up a view points
on which we are uncertain. First, you say that the
total of squatters living on land not required for
development in the urban areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon
is 317,000, of which it is proposed to rehouse 30,000.
This would appear to mean that the rehousing of the
balance of 287,000 is to be given a lower priority
Ca numbe than the movement to better accommodation of a smiler
number of those now living in accommodation of a more
permanent nature but in more unsatisfactory conditions.
If we are right in that assumption and if we take the
figure of 500,000 for the total number of squatters in
the urban areas, it would seem that the figure of
560,000 for lo-cost housing and resettlement on page
4 of your letter can be broken down to 347,000 for
lo-gost housing and 213,000 for squatters. We
cannot, however, reconcile these figures with the
300,000 individual units of resettlement accommodation
and 290,000 units of government low-cost housing
approved by the Executive Council at its meeting on
29 September 1970. We are also uncertain as to
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