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Edith Lin

Hong Kong’s Housing Authority will award up to HK$3,000 (US$386) to individuals who provide information that allows the government to reclaim a misused public rental flat starting next week.
The city’s major public housing provider said on Wednesday that anyone aged 16 or above could join the reward scheme, but they must not be directly employed by the authority or its executive arm, the Housing Department.
Informants must provide their names and indicate their intention to join.
“The reports will be preliminarily assessed, and the informants will be interviewed by dedicated personnel to verify the accuracy of the information provided,” a spokesman for the authority said. “[The] cases for receiving rewards will be reviewed by an assessment panel.”
The panel, chaired by a directorate officer, would also examine complicated cases, such as ones involving more than one informant, and make the final decision.
The reward scheme will launch next Wednesday.
In October 2023, the authority implemented a series of measures to tackle the abuse of public housing resources, including requiring tenants to make declarations about their assets and income every two years.
The government later said it had reclaimed about 15,500 public rental flats in the 2023-24 financial year, with nearly a fifth of the cases identified through the mandatory declarations.
The tightened regulation was introduced after Kwong Kau, the former father-in-law of slain model Abby Choi Tin-fung, was discovered in 2023 to have owned a luxury home and subsidised flat.
The authority said cases that were relatively easy to detect had all been identified and it needed more “investigative clues” from the public to find additional offenders.


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Residents will have to provide their names and be interviewed, Housing Authority says, as it steps up efforts to tackle misuse of public rental flats


Residents will have to provide their names and be interviewed, Housing Authority says, as it steps up efforts to tackle misuse of public rental flats.
