THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF SURVEYORS

Code

2020102

Event Name

Conceived for the optimization of Hong Kong’s Subsidised Housing Scheme 優化香港資助出售房屋計劃的構想

CPD Code

Formal Events

Speaker

Mr Anthony CHIU Kwok Wai (招國偉) is the Executive Director of the Federation of Public Housing Estates (公屋聯會). He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Chinese from the Lingnan University. He now serves as a Member of the Hong Kong Housing Authority and its Subsidised Housing Committee. Also he is a member of the Task Force for the Study on Tenancy Control of Subdivided Units.

Event Date

2020-07-21

Event Time

6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Registration Closing Date

2020-07-16

CPD Hour(s)

1.5

Divisional PQSL Hour(s)

1.5

Venue

By online media - ZOOM

Division

PDD

Organizer

Planning and Development Division

Fee

HK$ 150 for probationer and student member, HK$ 180 for full-member and associate member; HK$ 250 for non-member

Priority

HKIS PDD and Housing Policy Panel members (First-come-first-served)

Language

Cantonese supplemented by English

Details

The CE Mrs. Carrie Lam published her first Policy Address in 2017. In her Policy Address, she said the government would strive to build a housing ladder to rekindle the hope of families in different income brackets becoming home-owners such as

regularizing the Green Form Subsided Home Ownership scheme (綠表置居計劃恆常化)
regularizing the Interim Scheme of Extending the HOS Secondary Market to White Form Buyers (白表居屋第二市場計劃恆常化)
revising the pricing policy for SSFs (修訂資助出售房屋定價機制)
accelerating the sale of the TPS flats (推售租者置其屋計劃未售單位)
launching the “Starter Homes” Pilot Scheme for Hong Kong Residents (港人首次置業先導計劃)

On behalf of the Federation of Public Housing Estates, the speaker will share his views and comments on how best the abovementioned policies be improved.

Remarks

The event will be conducted online via ZOOM. Successful registrants will be notified separately via email with the web link in due course to the online event .

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Payment

HKD 180

Face-to-Face/Zoom

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