Community Housing Movement is a new initiative of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. We are committed to working with property owners, NGOs and social enterprises to provide affordable and decent transitional social housing. The project is aimed at not only meeting the temporary housing needs of the grassroots without support of public rental housing, but also enhancing their individual capacity, and strengthening their community network. Through the provision of social housing, tenants are empowered to live independently in the market or move to the public rental housing.

After the project was launched, the HKCSS has been collecting some vacant flats from different property owners who are willing to rent out their flats for more than 2 years and at the rent below market price. These flats are usually scattered across 18 districts and can’t be grouped for renting.  In view of this, we have made an alternative arrange to facilitate NGOs and social enterprises to operate. 

The 2 individual owners’ units will soon be available for service operation. Pre-qualified service operators interested in operating the units, please fill in and submit the reply slip.  Units will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
 
After the applicant confirms operating the units, applicant(s) is/are required to submit a service proposal within two weeks explaining how they are going to operate those units.  Same as other projects, during the operation period, the operator is expected to work with the Council to evaluate the effectiveness and social impact, and to explore the long-term development of transitional social housing service in Hong Kong.
 
If your organization is not yet a prequalified service operator and would like to become one, please also hand in the application form together with the reply slip to express the interest in operating individual owners’ units in the future by mail ([email protected]) or by fax (3611 5379) on or before March 13, 2020.

Document download: (Chinese version only) 

1. Flat Introduction – Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei
2. Flat Introduction – Ting Yip Street, Ngau Tau Kok
3. Application form
4. Reply slip

For enquiry, please contact Ms. Yang at 3596 7557. Thank you for your attention.