The crackdown on public housing abuse in Hong Kong has received broad public support as more rental units were recovered and reassigned to those with genuine need. But as more tenants are evicted for flouting the rules, there have also been calls for greater sensitivity in handling families with special needs. The sad outcome of…
A Hong Kong district councillor has been struck by a falling piece of concrete while moving supplies with a care team at a public housing estate. Police received a report shortly after noon on Saturday that a woman had been hit on the head by a falling piece of concrete at Yiu Tung Estate in…
Hong Kong’s second-largest public housing provider plans to send out a fresh round of tenancy agreements in September that will require well-off residents to pay extra rent, with those who refuse expected to move out in four months, the group’s chairman has said. Ling Kar-kan, Hong Kong Housing Society chairman, also said on Saturday the…
Well-off Hong Kong public housing tenants should be given priority to buy subsidised homes as an incentive to move up the housing ladder, a lawmaker and a concern group have said, after authorities announced a plan to increase rent and evict wealthier households. Lawmaker Lo Wai-kwok, a member of the Legislative Council’s housing panel, on…
Well-off Hong Kong public housing tenants should be given priority to buy subsidised homes as an incentive to move up the housing ladder, a lawmaker and a concern group have said, after authorities announced a plan to increase rent and evict rich households. Housing panel lawmaker Lo Wai-kwok on Monday called on authorities to offer…
Nearly 1,200 of the most well-off tenants in Hong Kong’s public rental flats will be forced out in four years’ time even if they are willing to pay higher rents, in a more aggressive move by the government to prevent abuse of housing resources, the Post has learned. However, those tenants would be eligible to…
Hong Kong office landlords are increasingly in a “defensive” position amid a supply glut that is driving tenants to upgrade to better and cheaper locations and facilities, according to analysts. “The flight to quality of existing tenants within Hong Kong is absolutely going to continue with all the new supply coming in the next three…
Advocacy groups and tenants have urged Hong Kong authorities to adjust proposals for regulating below-standard subdivided flats, calling for bigger minimum sizes and permanent resettlement as a public consultation ended. Some tenants on Monday also said they had been evicted as their landlords had told them they needed to renovate their flats to meet the…
Hong Kong authorities have learned of cases of subdivided-flat tenants allegedly being evicted due to landlords renovating the homes ahead of a government clampdown on subpar housing, a minister has said. Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho Wing-yin said it was the first time the Rating and Valuation Department had received such complaints, which were filed…
Hong Kong authorities pledged to seriously follow up on complaints of forced removal of tenants from subdivided flats, as a two-month consultation on a regulatory regime to wipe out poor quality housing started on Monday. The government earlier proposed drafting new laws that would only allow registered subdivided flats – known as “basic housing units”…