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Chief Executive's Office statement
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     In response to the comment of a radio programme today (September 4) that, according to the total housing supply target for the next 10 years recommended by the Long Term Housing Strategy Steering Committee, the number of public rental housing flat supply is not consistent with the 35,000 units stated in the Chief Executive's Election Manifesto, the Chief Executive's Office issued the following statement:

     The Chief Executive pledged in his Election Manifesto that we will expedite the construction of the planned 75,000 public rental housing flats in the next five years as announced by the Government of the last term and bring forward by one year the completion of about half of the flats (35,000) scheduled for completion in later years, in order to cope with the growing number of applicants on the General Waiting List. In other words, the Chief Executive had not proposed in his Election Manifesto that 35,000 public rental housing flats would be built every year.

Ends/Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Issued at HKT 20:47

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