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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
Category
(4) Development clearances
No. of Units
(a) cottage areas
20,000
(b) metropolitan area squatters
100,000
(c) New Territories squatters
20,000
(5) Re-use of licensed areas
120,000
(6) Relief of overcrowding in resettle-
ment estates
180,000
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(7) Pavement dwellers
1,000
500,000
MR. SALES: -Mr. Chairman, to what extent does the 77,240 figure given by the Commissioner represent the old structures and what are new structures which have surreptitiously been put up in the interval?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-77,240 structures are all reg- istered pre 1964 structures. Any new structures built since have been subsequently demolished, repeatedly many times in some cases.
MRS. ELLIOTT:-Mr. Chairman, does the Commissioner include all the squatters living in Ngau Tau Kok Resettlement Estate?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-Those are hawkers, I be- lieve, Sir.
MRS. ELLIOTT:-I am sorry, Mr. Chairman, may I clarify? They are squatters.
MR. LO TAK-SHING:-Mr. Chairman,
-Mr. Chairman, I must say I am rather de- pressed, frightened really. Do you mean to say that today, apart from squatters, there are half a million people who are eligible for resettle- ment but who haven't been resettled? After six years do you mean that these people are today eligible, or expect to be eligible. Take for example compassionate cases and victims of natural and other disasters, do you mean that these victims are here today, are they already victims. If today half a million people are waiting for resettlement and are eligible for it, how many will there be in 1976? I am really rather depressed.
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-All estimates are based on assumptions, Sir.
MR. LO:-I thought answers were based on questions.
MR. CHEONG-LEEN:-Mr. Chairman, I didn't hear Mr. Lo quite correctly. Did he say impressed or depressed?
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