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This is a list of Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) and Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS) Estates in Hong Kong. Estates of Green Form Subsidised Home Ownership Scheme (GFSHOS) and My Home Purchase Plan (MHPP) are also shown in the lists. They are housing estates sold by Hong Kong Housing Authority (HKHA) and Hong Kong Housing Society.
The Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) is a subsidised-sale public housing programme managed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority.It was instituted in the late 1970s as part of the government policy for public housing with two aims – to encourage better-off tenants of rental flats to vacate those flats for re-allocation to families in greater housing need; and also to provide an opportunity for home ...
Hong Kong [e] is a special ... Home to the second-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, ... With few natural lakes and rivers, high population ...
A CBRE report from 2019 lists Hong Kong as having the highest average property price in the world. [20] As of June 2021, an average 500 sqft apartment cost HK$9.44 million in Hong Kong Island, HK$8.32 million in Kowloon, and HK$7 million in New Territories; an average family would have to save for about 20.7 years to pay for such a unit. [21]
Public housing in Hong Kong is a set of mass housing programmes through which the Government of Hong Kong provides affordable housing for lower-income residents. It is a major component of housing in Hong Kong , with nearly half of the population now residing in some form of public housing. [ 1 ]
This is a list of public housing estates in Hong Kong. Many of them are properties of Hong Kong Housing Authority (HKHA), while some of them are properties of Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS). Part of a series on
Hong Kong also has 235 species of ants, 17 species of praying mantids, 31 species of cockroaches, six species of flea, 78 species of mosquitoes, and 124 species of grasshoppers. 4,583 species are plant-eating (phytophagous), and over 1,000 species are beneficial insects either preying on or existing as parasites over other pests.
Although the total area of Hong Kong is 1105.7 square kilometres, [43] the land planned for residential use in 2015 is only about 77 square kilometres, accounting for 7.0% of the total area. [44] In the face of population pressure, Hong Kong Government has to increase the land supply in order to deal with the rising housing demand in the future.