TNAG-0317-FCO40-353-Policy-of-housing-and-resettlement-in-Hong-Kong-problem-of-s-1971 — Page 178

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

HONG KONG

Реснима

13/1/71

& brev

rayal, E

HKIL 18/9

*

Q

Dear Meshi

}

7th January 1971

This

Mr. Royle was anxious that I should, on my return, look again into the position as regards the re-housing of squatters, about which Mr. Heath had expressed concern. letter attempts to expand on Hugh Norman-Walker's recent telegram No. 818 of 5th December 1970 and related correspondence on this subject, in an endeavour to clarify our policies on this and related housing matters.

I think you have sufficient information available already on the basic distinctions we make in housing policies and our priorities for providing it, but I will re- capitulate the main points very briefly.

Domestic housing is provided by a number of means: by the private sector, covering all income levels; by agencies such as the Housing Authority and Housing Society, financed from Government funds and their own accrued rental revenues, which cater for selected families enjoying incomes within certain limits; by Government-built Low Cost Housing, catering for selected families enjoying incomes between somewhat different and lower limits; and by Resettlement Housing offered to all families forcibly cleared from Crown Land needed for development in the public interest, and made available to certain categories of families who need housing as a result of special hardship or

Sir Leslie Monson, KCMG, CB,

Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London, S.W.1.