Explainer | How is Hong Kong clamping down on abuse of public housing? The Post outlines the tactics
- Director of Housing Rosanna Law vows to continue crackdown on people who cheat to gain rented flat tenancies and to buy subsidised properties
Law, also the permanent secretary for housing, said the construction cost of the flats held by people who had breached the rules amounted to HK$5 billion (US$640 million).
She highlighted on Saturday an example where she had spotted a new car at Queen’s Hill Estate in Fanling with Hong Kong and mainland Chinese licence plates, only available to a select few, including businesspeople, political elites and philanthropists.
The Post here examines how the authorities have cracked down on “well-off tenants” living in the city’s subsidised public flats and outlines further steps that will be taken to catch breaches.
1. Why did the government step up checks?
Kwong, charged alongside his two sons with Choi’s murder, was found to be listed as the owner of a 291 sq ft home in Sheung Man Court in Kwai Chung less than a year after his registration as the owner of a 1,820 sq ft flat in exclusive Kadoorie Hill in November 2019.