Housing Authority says it would cost too much and it would be better if the tenants moved out
Going home is a daily ordeal for Wong Chan Yee-nui, 71.
She struggles up 10 flights of stairs after visits to the doctor or market - a strain made even harder by the hot weather that has baked Hong Kong this week.
She rests on the fourth and seventh floors on the way to the 10th-floor flat in Block 1 of Lei Muk Shue Estate in Tsuen Wan, that she shares with her husband and son.
'It is very tiring. It takes at least seven minutes to climb the stairs,' said Mrs Wong, who has lived in the estate for about five years and must regularly visit Yan Chai Hospital after a stroke a few years ago.
But calls by her and about 30 other residents of Blocks 1 and 4 for the installation of elevators drew a cool response from the Housing Authority yesterday.
Spending millions of dollars on lifts for a few hundred people was not money well spent, a spokeswoman said. It would be better if they moved out.
