Tenants
Question
9: What
are the Housing Society's principles for compassionate rehousing?
Answer:
With
respect to tenants who do not meet the normal eligibility criteria
for rehousing, the Housing Society will consider offering them compassionate
rehousing if they face genuine difficulties such as sickness, physical
disabilities or family problems.
The Housing Society will have its own discretion over 20 percent
of the rehousing units allocated by the Hong Kong Housing Authority
(HA) and the Housing Society for rehousing households, which do
not meet the normal HA/the Housing Society eligibility criteria
but require rehousing on compassionate grounds.
To qualify for compassionate rehousing, an applicant must meet all
of the following three conditions:
- having special social or medical needs which require better
accommodation for rehabilitation into the community, i.e.:
- those with physical and/or mental problems, which in the
professional view of doctors and/or medical social workers,
require improved accommodation in public or other suitable
housing to enable them to improve their conditions or to assist
them to reintegrate into the community; OR
- those who are socially handicapped to such an extent that,
in the judgement of caseworkers from the Urban Renewal Social
Service Teams, they face hardship because their existing accommodation
is unsuited to their needs to the extent that serious and
long-term detrimental effects to the individual and/or to
their families may result;
- be in need of immediate long-term housing assistance;
- have been genuinely living in the project area before the
project freezing/occupancy survey.
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