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renting

them. At

present,

42

41% of Hong Kong families own

their own homes. As a result of the Authority's imaginative

we can expect the number to rise steadily during the

years ahead.

ideas,

73.

The Housing Authority

aims

to

produce 527,000

public housing flats for rental and sale between now and

the year 2001. This is an ambitious target. The Government

will do its best to find the new land required and to

infrastructure. necessary

Our

planners

and

are hard at work already. Maintaining our housing

provide

engineers

the

programme

will

Government.

an remain

important

priority

for the

(£) The Environment

74.

Last October I spoke at some length about the

various pollution problems that we face and our

determination to tackle them. A White Paper on Pollution,

set out in detail

published

in June,

proposals

for a

comprehensive programme of action over the next ten years.

We have already begun to implement these. The Planning,

Environment and Lands Branch, which came into being last

month, will give a fresh impetus to our efforts to improve

the environment.

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