By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-26 05:51:17 | Updated at 2025-01-27 04:22:02
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Hong Kong will open up two more “community living rooms” in June, the city’s leader has said, adding that tenants can move into the first batch of “light public housing” flats by March as part of efforts to provide homes for underprivileged families.
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on Sunday that his government was committed to helping impoverished residents obtain safe and stable housing, after meeting several families at a community living space ahead of Lunar New Year.
“Our government is committed to addressing [underprivileged] housing issues, taking practical actions to help disadvantaged families secure safe and stable housing, and injecting more happiness and a sense of fulfilment into the city they call home,” he wrote on social media.
The concept for the community spaces came from social workers serving people living in cramped, small spaces, and aims to provide such tenants with more room to do their chores, take a break, meet other people and explore their potential.
Lee said the government would launch three community living spaces this year, with two of them having already received funding from the government’s Commission on Poverty and are set to open in June.
The two venues are located in Shau Kei Wan in the Eastern district and on Castle Peak Road in Kowloon City, joining four other government-run projects in Sham Shui Po, Nam Cheong, To Kwa Wan and Hung Hom.
