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Publicity

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Housing issues like rent increases, are bound to attract strong public reaction. Therefore, the announcement of the proposed rent increases will be accompanied by suitable publicity stressing that :

(a) the increases are small in money terms;

(b) the new rents will still be considerably

below the market level; and

(c)

these profit-oriented shops, restaurants and clinics are being heavily subsidised as the Housing Authority would still incur a forecast deficit of $12.9 million in 1986/87 in the working account for the

the premises concerned, even after the proposed increases.