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rental units for sale to

will also see the Housing Authority offering good quality

sitting tenants. And the Home

Purchase Loan Scheme will continue to help more of the

Authority's tenants to buy their own homes.

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spacious

But

the demand for better-designed and more

flats, increasingly owner-occupied, cannot be met

by the Government alone. Indeed, it would be wrong for this

responsibility to fall on the public sector as heavily as it

has in the past. So we look to a further expansion of the

private sector's contribution. By the end of the decade, we

expect the private sector to be producing nearly half of all

new housing in Hong Kong.

(b) Education

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pressures

In

education, as

in housing, we are facing

both for improved basic standards and for greater

choice. The growing sophistication of our economy has put a

premium on better educated and better trained people. The

rapid growth of our services sector in the 1980s has created

an upsurge in demand for new skills and qualifications.

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