The Labour Party says the government's Small House Policy is being abused and wants the administration to carry out a review on it. File photo: RTHK
Kwok Wing-kin talks to RTHK's Janice Wong
The Labour Party said on Wednesday that a study it carried out on the government's Small House Policy has found that its was abused by around half of the people who had benefitted from it.
The policy allows each male indigenous villager in the New Territories to build a three-storey house on his ancestral land. But the right cannot be transferred to others.
The vice-general secretary of the party, Kwok Wing-kin, said the study looked at about 900 permits that were granted for building houses during the past two decades. He said the houses built with 460 of the permits ended up being resold.
Kwok said the policy was not sustainable and was unfair to the majority of Hong Kong people. He told RTHK’s Janice Wong that the government should carry out a review of it immediately.
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