Restricted subsidy for owners to rent only to public housing waiters

Hong Kong’s demand for transitional housing is very enthusiastic. The Hong Kong Housing Society announced yesterday that it has launched the “Unpaid Subsidy for Sale of Housing-Rental Scheme” to allow eligible owners of subsidized sale of housing projects under the HS to lease individual sleeping rooms in their unpaid flats. Qualified tenants, as “temporary rental housing”. There are 21 subsidized housing projects for the rental program, and about 13,000 for the participating projects. The outside world reacts differently to the plan.

21 HOS flats can be leased about 13,000 units

The HS announced that the “Unpaid Subsidy for Sale of Houses – Lease Scheme”, which was launched under the pilot scheme, is an eligible owner of the subsidised sale of housing projects under the Housing Society. , leasing to eligible tenants as “temporary rental housing” to increase the supply of transitional housing. Owners who are interested in participating in the rental program can apply to the HS from now on. Tenant applications are expected to begin at the end of October. The scheme has been approved by the Lands Department for the waiver required to allow eligible owners to rent out their bedrooms in their unpaid units.

There must be two rooms for renting a kitchen and toilet.

The participating units must have two or more bedrooms. The owner must keep one of the bedrooms for their own use, and each rental bedroom must be rented to a tenant in one room. The kitchen and bathroom in the unit must also be shared by the owner and the tenant (if the unit has two bathrooms, except for the bathroom in the suite).

The owner of the application for the rental scheme must meet the following four qualifications; first, on the date of submission of the application, the owner owns the title of the unit for 10 years or more; secondly, the unit is still subject to the government grant contract and the amendment of the land grant clause. Resale conditions (ie, unpaid units) and the absence of a valid second-market “marketable certificate” for residential sales schemes; third, the unit’s internal space must be two bedrooms or more; 4. There are no illegal structures in the flats; and the Buildings Department has not issued a “warning notice” / “command” to the concerned flats.

Tenants must register for public housing for more than 3 years

The tenants applying for the rental scheme are also required to meet the following three qualifications: first, the general applicants who have a public housing estate application number of the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) and have been registered for 3 years or more (ie the family and the elderly) Applicants); or non-elderly one-person households with a valid HA’s quota and a public housing estate application number under the scoring system and registered for 6 years or more; secondly, applicants and all those listed on the application form The information of the public is required to be in line with the Housing Authority’s application for public housing. Thirdly, applicants must apply for the Housing Authority’s public housing estates until the “Qualified Tenancy Certificate” issued by the Scheme and the tenancy agreement with the owners. Meet the conditions for applying for Housing Authority public housing.

The renter determines the lease to be signed

The rent is determined by agreement between the landlord and the tenant. The lease must use the standard lease drawn up by the HS. Upon completion of the signing of the tenancy procedure, the landlord shall stamp the signed tenancy agreement and submit the required documents as required by the Rating and Valuation Department. Stamp duty is shared equally between the owner and the tenant. The landlord and tenant are required to return the “Notice of Signing the Lease” to the HS within two weeks after signing the lease.

Under the scheme, the tenancy agreement will last for 2 years. If the tenant is successfully allocated public housing within the tenancy period (including the first 12 months), the tenancy agreement must be terminated early.

The subsidized sale of housing projects is applicable to the rental scheme. Among them, there are 11 projects in the residential sale plan, including the first phase of Healthy Village, the second phase of Healthy Village, and the village of Jiawei. The sandwich class housing scheme has 10 projects, including Hongfu. Garden, Pinnacle Xuan, Qingbi Garden, etc. (see attached table). The total number of units in the 21 projects is about 19,000, which is about 13,000 units that participate in the plan.

DAB provides rent to tenants

Members of the Housing Authority and members of the Legislative Council of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), Mr Kwok Chuang-sing, said that they would like to introduce the “Rental Scheme” to provide more housing for the public housing estates waiting for public housing. The DAB has two proposals for the scheme. The party considered that in addition to the form of “shared sharing”, the HS should allow owners to rent out the entire unit. The second optimization is about “rent”. The party hopes that the authorities will consider providing rent allowance to tenants participating in the scheme.