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CONFIDENTIAL

Sir L Monson

HOUSING IN HONG KONG

1.

When you were on leave we received a reply to your letter

to Sir D Trench of 6 April.

2. The attached files, HKK 22/11 and 22/6, contain earlier

reports about the activities of those associated with the

Worker Student Political Action Committee.

3.

We have not in fact been approached by anybody about the conditions on resettlement estates since we received the copy

of the letter from this "Action Committee".

4.

The facts, as we now have them, are as follows

Squatters in the urban area

187,000

(5.4 per cent of total

population of 3.46 million in central built up area)

Boat Squatters

22,000

Over the next 6 years the resettlement and low cost housing programmes should provide accommodation for 560,000 people of whom 180,000 will be from existing overcrowded resettlement areas and 130,000 squatters (100,000 from land required for development and 30,000 from the worst areas on Crown land not

In addition to these Government required for development).

housing programmes it is expected that the Housing Authority and the Housing Society will between them provide accommodation over the period for 120,000 people and that the private sector will produce by 1976 housing for a further 360,000 at least.

CONFIDENTIAL

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