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other new huts are discovered and demolished when land is cleared for development. If the people in the huts claim to be homeless, we offer them a place in a Licensed Area where they can build a hut and wait until acconsodation is available in a resettlement estate. They pay 23 a month for a site. The people in Yan Yoe Village were all squatters who were temporarily rehoused in this way.
We cannot house such squatters in resettlement estates immediately otherwise crustting woul: become a quick way of getting into Govern eut housing at the expense of other people who have a better case for it, for example people who have been on the waiting list for many years, or people who are made homeless by a fire.
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About 35,000 people are living in Licensed Aroas at present. Life is fairly spartan and uncomfortable out Lost occupants find that it is worth waiting there until a place is available
Normally for them in a Government acusing estato. licensees are offered resettlement when they have been in a Licensed Area from between 2-4 years but no promise as to the length of stay is ever given. The reason for this is that the spaces available in resettlement estates in any year are often required for unpredictable commitments such as the 20,000 people from the hay/June ruins this year.
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Undoubtedly people in Licensed Areas are unsatisfactorily housed but they are better off then many people living in private buildings or squatter arcas, and at least they have the hope of getting permanent accommodation of a high standard at a very low rental in a comparatively short period.
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The people from Yan Yee Village are licensees who have been waiting from 2-4 years and could have been given resettlement this year under normal arrangements if it had not been for the fuct that a great deal of accommodation had to be found for about 20,000 people whose homes hed to be evacuated as a result of the ay/June rains,
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