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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 ...
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.
This plan is introduced by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong in the Policy address of Hong Kong 2010. [1] The implementation of plan, that is the first 5000 flats under the plan is expected to be ready for sell in 2014. [2] Under this Plan, the Hong Kong Housing Society will lease the flats to eligible applicants at prevailing market rates. [3]
The modern Housing Authority was founded in 1973. In 2005, most Housing Authority-owned shopping centres and car parks were controversially divested to The Link REIT.. A citywide scandal erupted in 2015 after heavy metals were found in the water supply of some housing estates, schools, and private residential buildings.
New Cheung Sha Wan Estate, completed 2013. The following is an overview of Public housing estates in Cheung Sha Wan, Hong Kong, including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Green Form Subsidised Home Ownership Scheme (GFSHOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), and Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) estates.
In 1952, the first rental housing estate in Hong Kong, Sheung Li Uk, was completed in Sham Shui Po, providing 5 blocks with 360 residential units and accommodating 1,900 tenants. To break out from the communal design which prevailed at that time, Sheung Li Uk provided self-contained flats with kitchens, bathrooms and balconies.
They are Hong Kong Housing Authority (HKHA), Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS), and Hong Kong Settlers Housing Corporation Limited. As of 31 March 2016, approx. ⅓ of Hong Kong's population (2.14 million) live in Hong Kong's public housing estates. 760,000 of those units were owned by HKHA [ 1 ] while 140,000 are HKHS [ 2 ] and 1,400 HK ...
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 ]