Source: Ming Pao
Ming Pao Society Review
The Hong Kong government announced the "Simplicity Public House" and provided 30,000 units. About half of them were in the urban area. After the cost of compression, the design, construction and additional infrastructure project costs of the entire plan can save about 950 millionYuan.The minimalist public housing lacks details before. The latest announcement has filled some important gaps, but there are still many details that must be clarified.The official said that the cost of each minimalist public housing unit is lower than the average cost of 760,000 yuan than the traditional public housing unit, but the total cost of the project is 26.44 billion yuan.It takes 880,000 yuan, which is also natural.Official needs to explain the cost of cost and expenditure in detail.The construction of a simple public housing to help poor residential households undoubtedly correct politics, but public policies cannot always be formulated with the "at the expense of work". It is not appropriate to resort to sensuality and suppress the rational discussion of the cost benefits with the suffering of the households.
The poor residents urgently need government aid
It does not mean that it is reasonable
The policy report proposes to build 30,000 unique public housing for 5 years, allowing poor housing households waiting for traditional public housing for more than 3 years to temporarily stay in.According to official ideas, minimalist public housing land can be some short -term idle official land, or it can be a private borrowed land. The specific available period is long and short. Generally speakingFive years for minimalist public housing.The Housing Bureau said last year that the design and construction engineering costs of simple public housing were 26.8 billion yuan, plus about 600 million yuan in infrastructure engineering costs, totaling 27.4 billion yuan.The amount of house construction can be increased to about 158,000 units, an increase of about 50 % from the previous five -year period.
There are more than 100,000 households in Hong Kong, which not only has a bad living environment, but also needs to be leased.The government builds a house and build a house, from planning to completion, and it takes more than 10 years. In the next 5 years, traditional public housing supply faces faults. Simple public housing has become a government emergency strategy. HoweverTemporary houses have to be disassembled for several years, restore land use, cost and benefits, and naturally attract much attention.Some members questioned that the cost of minimalist public housing was too high, and some of the site selection was too remote and lack of traffic facilities. It was like a chicken rib for inferior households and asked the government to provide more planning details.Recently, the government has finally explained.
According to the latest announcement, the official mobilized 3 official land in the urban area (Kai Tak, Kwun Tong and Chaiwan) to build more than 10,000 minimalist public housing. The building height can reach more than 10 floors.Tuen Mun, two in Yuen Long and Shangshui.In terms of cost, the construction team of the Construction Department was adjusted in the design of the pillars, which reduced the entire planned construction expenditure by about 950 million yuan.The official said that the low -level unit without piles was reduced to 530,000 yuan, which is cheaper than the cost of 550,000 yuan in the transition house; the high -rise units that must be piled up are 650,000 yuan, which is compared to the traditional public housing unit of the Housing Committee.The average cost of 760,000 yuan is low.In addition, after listening to the opinions of members, the government agreed to apply for funding to the Legislative Council twice, and no longer required a lot of money.The official said that after the households moved into the simple public housing, the average households could save more than 40,000 yuan a year per household. It also described minimalist public housing to become a "lifeboat" for helping residents, and the relevant value "could not be calculated."
In response to the inconvenience and cost of site selection, officials have tried to respond to external concerns, but some key issues still exist.First of all, the project spending has been reduced by 950 million yuan, but it has been scheduled for about 97 % for the original plan, and the actual reduction is very limited; the average area of the short layer of simple public housing units is 20 % larger than the transition house.Of course, it is a good thing, but there is no "high -rise" in the transitional house. It is not reasonable to compare the cost -effectiveness of high -rise minimalist public housing units with the cost performance of transition house units.In addition, the so -called "high -rise minimalist public housing average cost is lower than traditional public housing", how is it calculated, and the outside world is not clear. The public only knows that the government requires 26.44 billion yuan in funding.The average public sale invested by each unit is 880,000 yuan, which is at least 200,000 yuan.Where the public does not understand, the government has the responsibility to open up and explain in detail that it should not be transformed into it.
In terms of site selection, Chaiwan, Kwun Tong, and Kai Tak have convenient transportation, which is indeed very attractive. As for the official claims that the "90 %" units are located in the urban areas or mature new town, there are three selection sites in Tuen Mun District.Whether it is "just feet", I'm afraid I will see the wisdom.The location of Yuen Long and Shangshui is remote. It is still unknown whether the official strengthening traffic connection can attract poor residents to stay in.Because the transitional house in Tongxin Village in Yuen Long was too remote, the occupancy rate was only more than 60 %. The outside world was worried that the same problems had the same problems in the simple public housing of Yuen Long.
The poor residential households are waiting for the long road upstairs. If there is a way to help them help them in the short term, of course, it is worth exploring.The disturbing situation is not the same as that of the government's use of 700 billion yuan in financial reserves for this reason, which is a good public policy.Government governance must take the goal of results and pay attention to cost benefits. Otherwise, it is easy to abuse the generous taxpayer and derive the performance of the Gongjun Valley.
Public policy about cost benefits
Simplicity public housing is worth looking for money
The cost of talking about simple public housing is not to hinder the help of the house households, but to hope that the government thinks about how to make the public use more money.Chai Wan Simplicity Public House is selected for more than 10 years. It has been used for parking lots for more than 10 years. It has not been used well. Is there similarity in other parts of the urban area and can it be used to build simple houses?Kwun Tong Simplicity Public House is selected. Since it is not rushed to build a reservoir, can it simply change the use of land use and build traditional public housing?The official emphasizes Kai Tak's minimalist public housing land, and the long -term must be comprehensively developed in the commercial use of the development zone, but now the households are deep in water, whether the government can extend the time of minimalist public housing for more than 5 years, so that the local flowers are built on the local governmentTens of thousands of high -rise simple public housing, can it help more people?The government should consider these issues with an open attitude.
