Sandwich, Massachusetts

26 Apr 1999

During the Easter holidays, I went with some friends to look at the sandwich class flats at Diamond Hill MTR Station.

We all earn around $32,000 to $38,000 per month.

2:05AM

17 Jul 1996

The Housing Society may not be able to fulfil its pledge to provide affordable housing for all sandwich-class families by early next century, a senior staff member admitted yesterday.

6:38AM

Property price surge pushes up profit

6 Dec 1994

ABOUT half the $600 million profit the Housing Society will make from the sale of the more than 1,000 sandwich-class housing flats this month will be due to surging property prices.

4:14PM

Housing bids

5 May 1994

ABOUT 4,000 families have put in bids for the 1,500 places in the latest phase of the sandwich class housing loan scheme, which closed on Tuesday.

2:03PM

Sandwich scheme hard to swallow

23 May 1993

IN LAST year's annual Budget debate, there was cross-party consensus that there should be some form of assistance to help the sandwich class meet their housing needs.

6:45AM

Housing plan to be reviewed

23 Mar 1993

THE Government is ready to reconsider the sandwich class housing scheme amid growing discontent in the Legislative Council over the present proposal.

1:20AM

Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

3:33AM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Sandwich class get flats boost

HONGKONG will ask the Land Commission to grant six hectares of land to allow the construction of 5,000 Housing Society flats by 1996 to be sold to ''sandwich class'' people at a discount price.

9:45AM

Change call on sandwich class scheme

MORE people will benefit from the Government's proposed $2 billion cash handout to relieve the sandwich class housing problem if the fund is used to build new flats instead of paying a direct...

8:47PM

Not much meat in Macleod giveaways

ANYONE who drives a car, enjoys a drink and has yet to be caught by the health warnings on those packets of 20 never walks away from a Budget smiling.

4:53PM

Whatever happened to the sandwich class?

IT IS a dream unfulfilled. Four months after the Governor, Mr Chris Patten, pledged to relieve the middle income class of its housing squeeze, book shop manager Mr Daniel Tsoi Kwai-kau is still...

10:47AM

Scheme faces race against time

NO action has yet been taken on the Governor's proposals directed at solving the problem of ''sandwich class'' housing.

7:46PM