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Hong Kong injects HK$113 million into housing projects to ‘bring some warmth’ to city rocked by extradition crisis
- Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung says housing projects will benefit about 600 people and possibly improve the ‘current social atmosphere’
- One project involves HK$99 million for a modular social housing plan designed by Council of Social Service
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More than HK$110 million has been injected into transitional housing projects that will benefit about 600 people to “bring some warmth to the current social atmosphere”, the city’s No 2 official said on Sunday.
Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, writing on his blog as hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets again to protest against a divisive extradition bill, said: “The Commission on Poverty, which I chair, passed a number of important poverty alleviation projects last Tuesday to inject a little warmth into the current social atmosphere.”
Protesters remained dissatisfied the bill is not officially withdrawn and they want an independent investigation committee to probe police’s use of force during the demonstrations.
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Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor had said that after the bill saga, the next three years would be difficult for her administration. But she pledged her team would double their efforts and called for Hongkongers to have confidence in them so they could continue working to expand the economy and improving livelihoods in an effective and pragmatic manner.
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The first project would use HK$13.04 million from the Community Care Fund to revamp the Kowloon City campus of Lok Sin Tong Primary School, which would close down on August 31, into about 50 transitional housing units. This would benefit about 180 people.
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