Hong Kong Housing Authority looking at building more ‘nano flats’ for sale in coming projects
- At least three projects have proposals for flats as small as 250 sq ft to be sold to poor families
- Government’s long-term plan is for larger spaces, but tiny flats will help to ease supply crunch
Hong Kong’s main provider of subsidised housing is considering building more small flats in coming projects, with some as tiny as 250 sq ft, the Post has learned.
Sources said the Housing Authority was assessing the size of flats to sell to low-income families with households of two or three people. In at least three projects, some flats could have 226 sq ft of internal floor area, the minimum size adopted for two- to three-member families. It is roughly equivalent to 250 sq ft of saleable area.
In one project, tiny flats could make up as much as 40 per cent of the total, said the sources, who had seen discussion papers about the proposals.
The authority’s focus on tiny flats comes even as the government has pledged to increase the living space in public housing in the long run.
In Hong Kong, the world’s most expensive property market, private developers have taken to building shoebox homes known as “nano flats” – usually just 200 to 300 sq ft – to lure buyers who cannot afford bigger ones.