Is public housing in Hong Kong lifelong?

Public houses can live for a long time as they meet the relevant conditions, but it does not mean that they can live for a lifetime. Residents who have lived in public housing for 10 years or more must declare their family income to the Housing Department once every two years. Front-line management of the Housing Department will conduct basic checks on the income and asset declarations of all public housing tenants. In addition, the Housing Department has set up a central team to thoroughly examine randomly selected cases, suspicious cases and all cases of paying double rent.

According to the provisions of the public housing lease, each public housing unit is only for the head of the household and the family members named in the lease. If there is any change in family status due to birth, death or other circumstances, the householder must immediately notify the estate office/district rental office so that we can handle the case according to the existing policy.

What are the application procedures for public rental housing?

1. Application: those who belong to local residents must declare in the community neighborhood committee where their household registration is located, and others must declare in the community neighborhood committee where they are employed. New employees or migrant workers of organs, institutions and enterprises shall apply to their units.

2. Application form.

3. The applicant shall submit the corresponding materials.

4. Accepting the application: the community neighborhood committee or the unit where it works conducts a preliminary examination of the application materials. If the application materials are complete and conform to the statutory form, it shall be accepted in time and properly registered. If the application materials are incomplete or inconsistent with the statutory form, the community neighborhood committee or subordinate unit shall inform the applicant of the contents and materials that need to be supplemented within 2 working days.

5. Preliminary review: The community neighborhood committee or subordinate unit shall complete the preliminary review within 10 working days from the date of accepting the application. Those who meet the requirements after preliminary examination shall be publicized for 7 days in their respective jurisdictions and units. After publicity without objection, sign the preliminary examination opinions and report them.

6. Review: The District Management Committee and the competent unit shall review the application materials within 7 working days from the date of receiving the application materials, and report the review opinions to qualified applicants in time.

7. Final review: The Municipal Housing and Construction Bureau will review the applicant's application materials. Meet the final conditions, published in newspapers, websites and other news media, publicity period 10 days. If there is no objection during the publicity period and the final audit is qualified, the final audit opinion will be signed and sealed, and it will be included in the waiting list of public rental housing security objects.