Income limit for public housing applicants raised
(03-14 18:34)
The Housing Authority decided to raise the income and asset limit for the public housing applicants.
Effective from April 1, the waiting list income and asset limits for 2013/14 will be increased by an average of 6.0 per cent and 4.2 per cent respectively. Take four-person households as an example, the monthly income limit will increase to HK$22,140 from HK$20,710 and the asset limit will go up to HK$436,000 from $418,000.
For a one-member family, income limit is lifted to HK$8,880 and income limit for two-member family is set to HK$13,750.
It is estimated that some 125,200 non-owner occupied households in the private sector, representing about 29.5 per cent of the total, will be eligible to apply for public rental housing.
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