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Hong Kong authorities have proposed requiring new private homes and other buildings frequented by elderly to fulfil certain design requirements, while exempting some senior-friendly facilities from gross floor area calculations as incentives to developers amid the city’s ageing population. Details of the proposal, released to lawmakers in a paper on Thursday, had gained support from […]
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu unveiled new policies targeting Hong Kong’s notorious subdivided flats this week, aiming to improve the livelihoods of about 110,000 households living in the cramped homes. But critics have hit out at the government, saying the policy legitimises the problem by effectively allowing 70 per cent of the homes to stay, […]