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development of public housing has achieved some definite results by providing a stable home to almost half of the population of Hong Kong; but at the same time, this population also becomes divided, separated into two halves, namely public housing tenants and non-public housing residents who find themselves in antagonistic positions with regard to the enjoyment of community resources.
This situation reflects that people are generally self-centred, criticising others when they themselves are not enjoying certain benefits. For instance, only very few public housing tenants are in possession of wealth or property, perhaps one But critics, very often, out of a thousand or ten thousand tenants.
would allege that this is a common phenomenon and suggest that all those tenants with property or who are well-off must be ordered to
I agree with the Committee move out of their public housing units.
on Housing Subsidy's recommendation that those public housing tenants who have improved their financial situation should not be evicted. This is because according to my estimate, most public housing tenants would, in general, voluntarily move out from their Of course, there flats when they become well-off or own property.
might be some rare exceptions, in which cases we can make use of public criticism to press them to give up their public housing units voluntarily. Hong Kong people are often too harsh with their government; they would even ask for legislation to be made to rectify some rare cases of apparent injustice.
In fact, members of
the public also have the responsibility to defend social justice. It is a civic responsibility to initiate criticism against injustice, rather than to ask the Government to impose legislative controls on every case.
The Report of the Domestic Rent Policy Review Committee recommends that the median rent-income ratio should not exceed 15% whereas the present revised rents do not exceed 12% of the tenants' income on the average. As a result, the Report's proposal will be viewed as a kind of rent increase policy and will inevitably attract
On the other hand, the objections from public housing tenants.
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