Eviction looms for 'well-off' tenants in HK public rental homes
Hong Kong
HONG Kong is set to kick out wealthier public housing tenants as part of controversial new policies in a city plagued by unaffordable housing woes and lengthening waiting times for such public rental homes.
The subsidised-housing committee of Hong Kong's Housing Authority late Tuesday night finalised and endorsed measures that will force "well-off tenants" in public rental housing (PRH) to vacate their homes, beginning this October. The authority said that this would allow it to better allocate resources to those with "more pressing housing needs".
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