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Less than one-fifth of families plan to buy their own homes in the next 10 years, according to a government survey.
The findings were being seen last night as a blow to Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's home-ownership pledge.
The survey is an update of a previous poll on housing aspirations conducted in 1996, based on which the Government set a target of building 85,000 flats each year in the public and private sectors.
And in accordance with the 1996 findings, Mr Tung set a target of having 70 per cent of families owning their homes by 2007.
The two targets were a key part of his maiden Policy Address in October 1997.
At present, the home-ownership rate is about 53 per cent, roughly the same as in 1997.
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