Chapter five hundred and ninetieth affordable public rental housing
The house leak coincided with the continuous rain. The public opinion about safety issues in squatter areas caused by heavy rain a few days ago had just been suppressed. On June 26, another fire broke out in Chung Tau Village, Ap Lei Chau, killing more than 900 villagers.
So there is no place to live.
This has once again triggered a heated discussion in the public opinion on the safety of citizens in squatter areas. It is hoped that the Bryan government can come up with specific measures to solve the historical problem of squatter areas. While rectifying the living environment in Xiangjiang, it can also protect the citizens of squatter areas.
residential safety and personal and property safety.
The northern government, which has reached a stalemate in negotiations, is also putting pressure on the British and Bryan governments in this regard, asking the Bryan government to take concrete measures to ensure the safety of citizens. If the Bryan government cannot do this, they will not continue negotiations.
Directly ask the troops to take over to ensure the safety of citizens' personal property.
Faced with internal public opinion, pressure from the north, and urging from the homeland, the Bryan government had to make some compromises.
At three o'clock in the afternoon on the 29th, in the conference hall of the Government House, there were gathered members of the six major local associations in Hong Kong and members of the Nanyang Hong Kong Association, as well as the heads of Hong Kong enterprises of the Rose Foundation and the top 100 heads of Hong Kong enterprises. The scale of the meeting was quite large.
At the meeting, Chief Executive Kessos said: "Due to historical reasons, many squatter areas have emerged. According to incomplete statistics, more than 1.26 million people currently live in them.
Because most of the residences are wooden houses, there are great safety risks. Many major fires in Xiangjiang have occurred in these areas.
In order to respond to the concerns of all walks of life in Hong Kong and to protect the living and personal safety of citizens in squatter areas, our government has launched a government-subsidized public rental housing plan for 1.5 million citizens to completely solve this historical problem.
This time, the affordable public rental housing is mainly divided into three very large communities, each housing a population of 500,000 people. It is planned to be located in Tuen Mun, Kwun Tong, and Wong Tai Sin to promote the development of these three districts.
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When it was the turn of representatives of these companies to speak, Wei Li, the president of Wheelock Holdings Group, first spoke out: "This government's affordable public rental housing plan is mainly for the villagers in squatter areas. Therefore, I personally believe that the government should establish
Affordable public rental housing should be located in squatter areas where there are more villagers.
For example, there are a large number of squatter areas in Yuen Long, North District, and Tai Po. Building affordable public rental housing in these areas will also facilitate the settlement of squatter villagers nearby."
Subsequently, Xin Jian and several group CEOs who attended the meeting expressed their strong support for the government to establish affordable public rental housing to improve the living quality of villagers in squatter areas.
Although the property rights of these houses belong to the government, the villagers in these squatter areas only have the right to live in them and have to pay a small amount of rent, but it is still better than living in squatter areas.
The reason why the Yan Jian Department hopes to build the three major districts in Tai Po, Yuen Long and Tai Po is also because of interests. The focus of the Tung Wah Association is on these three areas plus Sai Kung with Tseung Kwan O as the center.
The existence of these three super-large residential areas has considerable benefits for the Xinjian industrial layout.
Although residential real estate will be hit hard as a result, they will gain a lot in commercial real estate.
Some people present today are very reluctant to see such a large-scale construction of affordable public rental housing. Once this plan is implemented, it will cause a devastating blow to their businesses that mainly focus on residential development.
In fact, Gan Qinglin, from the perspective of the Xinjian Real Estate Group, does not want it either. You must know that Xinjian Real Estate sells low-end housing, and its main customers are villagers in squatter areas and ordinary working class people.
Xinjian Real Estate has accumulated a large amount of land in several districts in recent years and will gradually develop it in the future to meet the housing needs of ordinary citizens.
Once the government's affordable public rental housing for 1.5 million citizens is implemented, market demand will shrink significantly, the value of the reserve land owned by Xinjian Real Estate will drop significantly, and the group's market value will also drop significantly.
However, as a company under the Xinjian Department, it must obey the strategic development of the entire Xinjian Department. Therefore, even though he knew that this plan was not good for Xinjian Real Estate, Gan Qinglin still expressed his support.
Listening to representatives from all parties present arguing with each other about whether affordable public rental housing should be built and where to build it, Brian was quite satisfied.
In fact, he is very clear about the impact of building affordable public housing on such a large scale this time. As soon as this news gets out, the real estate stocks on the Hong Kong stock market tomorrow, except for Wheelock Land, a company that is purely commercial real estate, other real estate companies
The company's stock price will plummet.
It can be said that the stock market will inevitably usher in a Black Thursday tomorrow, it just depends on the severity of the tragedy.
Moreover, Brian believes that if this policy is implemented, a large number of real estate companies will inevitably go bankrupt, and even economic development will be greatly affected.
It's a pity that Brian doesn't want to do this unless it is a last resort, because in his opinion, it is only a short-term pain, but in the long run, it will be beneficial to economic development and social stability.
Now he only hopes to use this to create as big conflicts and rifts as possible among the major forces in Xiangjiang's business community, so that they can fight against each other.
At the same time, they will also use the current situation to allow more people to stand on their side, thereby creating pressure on the north.
After the various forces spoke, Bryan said: "The establishment of affordable public rental housing for 1.5 million people this time is the result of careful consideration by our government.
This is also for the stability of our city and the interests of the general public. Although this may affect the interests of some companies, I believe that these corporate shareholders can make concessions for the benefit of these citizens.
As for the construction model, the Tianshui City project construction model will be adopted, with a two-year cycle and ten years to build three new cities that can accommodate 500,000 citizens each.
In terms of location, there are reasons to consider Tuen Mun, Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong. Yuen Long is where the clothing, food headquarters and R&D production center are, and it is also our second higher education cluster in Hong Kong.
The North District is our Xiangjiang high-tech innovation research and development center, computer hardware and software production center, and high-tech industry incubation center.
Dapu is our high-tech industry production base and electronic information industry R&D and production center.
Several places have core development industries that drive local economic development.
But Hong Kong is a whole, and we cannot only focus on developing certain areas while neglecting the development of other areas.
At present, the areas that are relatively lagging in development are Tuen Mun, Wong Tai Sin, and Kwun Tong. As for the outlying islands, we will not mention them for now.
In order to drive the economic development of these three districts, it is very appropriate to build affordable public rental housing in these three districts. It can also promote the balanced development of each district and reduce the population density of the central city.
And please don’t worry, our policy of adding 200,000 new citizens to settle in Hong Kong every year will continue.
I believe that as the situation stabilizes, our permanent population will continue to grow, the demand for housing will continue to increase, and the development of our related enterprises will only get better and better."
At this meeting, the Bryan government obviously has no intention of giving land to all parties. It is entirely the government's investment in the construction of affordable public rental housing. At that time, the construction project will only be contracted to the Construction Company.
Those who manipulate the media to create public opinion and want to hoard land have obviously failed to achieve their goals. Li Jianhui, for example, has done nothing this time.