Flats scheme gets poor out of cubicle units
I appreciate the efforts of the NGO, Society for Community Organisation, which is renovating old flats owned by civic-minded landlords to improve the living conditions of poor families in the long queue for public housing. For many of them, the only other option is to pay for a small and costly subdivided unit, and endure cramped and unhygienic conditions.
However, while I welcome this project, it is quite small in scale. For there to be similar schemes and more of these flats, the government must provide the NGOs involved with more financial help.
With additional subsidies, NGOs can renovate a lot of old flats and rehouse subdivided unit tenants while they wait for that coveted public estate home.
This would seem to be money well spent by the administration, given that I do not see it being able to shorten the long waiting list for public housing any time in the near future.
I also think the relevant government department should be helping NGOs to convert abandoned industrial buildings into housing.