ELDERLY Tai O residents are opposing moves to rehouse them in a modern estate because they do not want to deal with flush toilets and lifts.
They also face a massive rent increase.
Their wooden huts on the bank of Tai O Creek, which cuts through the village on Lantau Island, are being cleared to make way for a sheltered anchorage.
Residents will be rehoused in a nearby estate, Lung Tin Estate II, which will be completed by the end of the year.
Leung Yau-fuk, 79, said he was worried whether he could afford the rent in the new estate. He and his wife Chan Loy-ho, 70, now pay only $7 a year for their hut.
''We have no income. How can we pay for the rent? The Government should lower the rent and give us subsidies or we would rather sleep in the street,'' he said.
