Eviction of Hong Kong teacher on hold as she mounts challenge against authorities
Teacher insists checks by Housing Department to see if she lived in one-person public flat overlooked her long daily hours away from home
Hong Kong’s housing authorities have put on hold an order to evict a violin teacher from her flat after she launched a legal bid challenging the rationality of their 18 sudden inspections.
Tang Wai-yin last month filed a judicial review application against the Housing Department’s decision to take back her one-person flat in a Tin Shui Wai public housing estate, which she moved into in 2023.
The government’s action came after it rolled out a series of measures to tackle the abuse of public housing resources in the city.
Tang was asked by the department to leave the flat in January after she was found to have been absent from her home during all its inspections between May and August last year.
A legal representative for the department told the High Court on Thursday that it would let Tang stay in the flat until the next hearing.
The court will hear Tang’s case and decide whether to let her bring forward the judicial challenge on July 16.