Eligibility Criteria for Elderly Persons' Flats

Application for Elderly Persons' Flats

(A) Eligibility Criteria
  • Prior to the date of the application, the applicant and family member(s) listed in the application (if any) must be aged 60 or above (according to the Date of Birth shown on the Hong Kong Identity Card).  
  • Prior to the date of the application, the applicant must have resided in Hong Kong for 7 years (according to the issuing date of the Hong Kong Identity Card), holding a valid Hong Kong Identity Card and has the right of abode in Hong Kong. The residence in Hong Kong is not subject to any conditions of stay (except for conditions on the limit of stay). The applicant and family member(s) listed in the application (if any) must be permanently residing in Hong Kong. Any persons who are not granted the right to land in Hong Kong cannot be included in the application. 
  • The application may consist of one to three person(s).

    If the application consists of one person only, the applicant must be an unmarried person, divorcee, widow/widower or married person whose spouse has not been granted the right to land in Hong Kong.

    If the application consists of two or three persons, the relationship between the applicant and family member(s) must either be husband and wife, parent(s), child(ren), sibling(s). 

    (For all married persons listed in the application, their spouse must be included, unless final divorce documents or death certificate of spouse can be produced.)
  • Neither the applicant nor any family member listed in the application (if any) owns domestic property(ies) or land(s) for domestic use in Hong Kong in any form or manner directly or indirectly within 24 months preceding the date of application and up to the commencement of tenancy of allocated rental unit.
  • The applicant and/or family member(s) listed in the application (if any) must not be/have been an owner/loan recipient and his/her spouse of any property purchased under any of the subsidised housing projects/schemes/loan schemes operated by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the Government), Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS), Hong Kong Housing Authority (HKHA) or Urban Renewal Authority (URA). Those who have their names deleted from the relevant registers/record due to change in marital status can be exempted from this restriction.
  • The applicant and family member(s) listed in the application (if any) (including any persons who have yet to be the spouses of the compensation recipients at the time of compensation) who have been granted compensation by the Government based on the Home Ownership Scheme price level due to the clearance of the Kowloon Walled City and who have opted to make self-arrangement for accommodation are ineligible to apply for Elderly Persons’ Flats.

    The applicant and family member(s) listed in the application (if any) who are affected by the clearance/redevelopment projects and who had opted to receive cash allowance/ex-gratia payment granted by the HKHS/HKHA/URA/Lands Department/ other authorities in lieu of rehousing are ineligible to apply for Elderly Persons’ Flats within two years/the specified dates after the date of receipt of the allowance/ex-gratia payment.
  • The applicant and family member(s) listed in the application (if any) must be capable of looking after themselves in their daily lives.
  • The applicant and/or family member(s) listed in the application (if any) who are a tenant and spouse (if any) of Housing for Senior Citizens from HKHA are not eligible to apply for Elderly Persons’ Flats and the application will be cancelled.
  • The applicant and/or family member(s) listed in the application (if any) who are recipients of Social Welfare Department’s cash assistance/allowance schemes for elderly people who choose to reside in the Mainland, including but not limited to the Portable Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme, the Guangdong Scheme and the Fujian Scheme are ineligible to apply.
  • Applicants or family members whose Public Rental Housing (PRH) of HKHA / rental estate units of HKHS applications cancelled by HKHA on or after 1 October 2023, or by HKHS on or after 1 December 2023 on grounds of making false declarations or furnishing false information will be barred from re-applying for PRH and rental estate units for a period of five years from the date of cancellation.
  • Ex-tenants with PRH/ rental estate units tenancies terminated by HKHA on or after 1 October 2023, or by HKHS on or after 1 December 2023 for making false declarations, breaching any terms of the tenancy agreement or violating the Marking Scheme for Estate Management Enforcement in PRH (applicable to HKHA) etc., as well as their family member(s) aged 18 or above at the time of tenancy termination are ineligible to apply for PRH and rental estate units within five years from the following day after the date of tenancy termination. Although their applications may have been registered before the date of tenancy termination, these applications will be temporarily frozen for five years from the following day after the date of tenancy termination and the frozen period will not be counted as the waiting time (Non-elderly One-person Applicants of HKHA also will not earn any waiting time points during the frozen period). Should applicant households of PRH or rental estate units including ex-tenants and family members aged 18 or above at the time of tenancy termination have vacated the PRH or rental estate units without paying the rent arrears / debts when the tenancy is terminated, they must settle all the outstanding rent arrears / debts before they will be offered another unit in consequence of the PRH or rental estate units application.
  • If the applicant and/or family member(s) listed in the application (if any) have enjoyed other subsidised housing benefits (including but not limited to “Home Ownership Scheme”, “Subsidised Sale Flats Project”) during application, the application for rental estate from HKHS will be cancelled.
  • HKHS may revise the application eligibility criteria for rental estate as appropriate. HKHS will not inform applicants of such versions, please browse HKHS website (www.hkhs.com) or contact HKHS on 2894 3274 for details. Applicants must also abide by all the application eligibility criteria for rental estate revised by HKHS from time to time.
  • The total monthly income and net asset of the applicant and member(s) listed in the application (if any) must not exceed the maximum limits as listed below.  Such limits are subject to annual review.​​​​​​
    No. of Person(s) Maximum Monthly Income Limits
    (Effective  1 April 2024)    		 Maximum Asset Limits*
    (Effective  1 April 2024)
    1 person $14,900 $286,000
    2 persons $19,730 $387,000
    3 persons $24,740 $505,000
    *If all member(s) of a family is/are elderly person(s) of age 60 or above, the total net asset limit for the family will double the amount as shown in the above table (Effective 1 June 2018).
(B) Rental Estates with Elderly Persons’ Flats and the Monthly Rent are as follows:
Rental Estates Monthly Rent (HK$)
(From 1 October 2024)
Healthy Village Phase I, North Point $1,419 to $4,162 
Prosperous Garden, Yaumatei $1,103 to $3,544
Lok Man Sun Chuen, Tokwawan $737
Ka Wai Chuen, Hung Hom $1,145
Bo Shek Mansion, Tsuen Wan $1,586 to $1,914
Clague Garden Estate, Tsuen Wan $1,296 to $3,418
Cho Yiu Chuen, Kwai Chung $1,178 to $1,939
Jat Min Chuen, Shatin $1,296

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