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Hong Kong Housing Minister announced on Saturday that the authority would send 40 households out of their occupied public housing after it was found out that they are the owners of private residential property somewhere else.
The housing department reported that 88,000 public housing residents were asked to update their property information, with a total of 98 per cent feedback at present.
In addition, the Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho said that within 1700 residents that were yet to release their required information, about 200 of them voluntarily gave up their units to the authority.
She said on a radio programme "Among them are forty households that owned residential property and we will issue them a notice to vacate. For the remaining cases, they involve different situations, such as undergoing divorce procedures and filing for bankruptcy... We will follow up on a case-by-case basis".
Hong Kong government earlier said it had decided to scrap the Lin Tong Mei project in Sheung Shui in its second phase to build temporary homes. Instead, officials said the government plans to convert five vacant or soon-to-be-emptied schools into housing units, coupled with an additional development in Ma On Shan.
She also pointed out that four of the five schools earmarked for light public housing projects were still in use.
"If schools could assist, we might go to the campus to do some planning first or conduct preliminary surveying. That would not interrupt classes. It would also be possible for staff from the Architectural Services Department to visit after school hours...or during holidays. These things could be done in parallel," she said.
The minister added that she hoped all light public housing projects could be completed by 2027.
香港40名租用公屋的居民將被驅逐
香港房屋部長週六宣布，當局發現40戶住戶是其他地方的私人住宅業主後，將把他們佔用的公屋驅逐出他們。
住建部門通報，已要求8.8萬名公屋居民更新房產訊息，目前回饋率已達98%。
此外，房屋局長何敏儀表示，在1,700名尚未提供所需資料的居民中，約有200人自願向當局放棄單位。
她在電台節目中表示，「其中有四十戶擁有住宅物業，我們會向他們發出搬出通知。對於其餘的情況，他們涉及不同的情況，例如辦理離婚手續和申請破產……我們會向他們發出搬遷通知。」並根據具體情況進行跟進」。
香港政府稍早表示，已決定取消上水林塘尾計畫第二期建造臨時房屋的計畫。 相反，官員表示，政府計劃將五所空置或即將空置的學校改建為住房單元，並在馬鞍山進行額外的開發。
她還指出，指定用於輕型公共房屋計畫的五所學校中有四所仍在使用。
「如果學校可以協助的話，我們可能會先去校園做一些規劃或進行初步測量，這樣就不會影響上課。建築署的人員也可以在放學後……或上課期間到校園參觀。」 「假期。這些事情可以並行完成，」她說。
這位部長補充說，她希望所有輕型公共住宅項目都能在 2027 年之前完成。
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