A group of 30 Nepali street sleepers living in a government car park complex in Yau Ma Tei for more than a year are to be evicted this month.
Social workers are racing to find alternative accommodation for the men - most of whom are in their 20s - before they are removed.
The jobless men, most of whom were born in Hong Kong, settled into three floors of the 10-storey Yau Ma Tei government multi-storey car park in July last year. Many are former airport construction workers.
A Transport Department spokesman said there was no exact timetable for the removal, but it is understood security will be tightened later this month to bar the men re-entering the complex once they have left.
The spokesman said the department's tolerance would not persist. He said although the building would not be demolished for the expansion of the Gascoigne Road flyover until 2006, it was 'not for street sleeping'.
Discussions have been held between the Transport and Social Welfare departments about re-housing the men.
