This article was first published on November 21, 1985
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By James Sun
Families to be evacuated
The Housing Authority is expected to announce today (November 21, 1985) an intensive redevelopment programme for 26 substandard estate blocks from which more than 17,000 families will be evacuated in the next four years.
The super programme, costing taxpayers up to $800 million will start next month if given the go-ahead by the Executive Council.
The Housing Authority is to meet this morning to discuss and approve the proposed programme, which is a result of the authority’s latest structural survey of 939 blocks out of the 1,032 blocks built more than five years ago.
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The survey showed that 577 blocks have problems in the strength of the concrete, which needs repairs.
The authority has decided that 26 of them, completed between 1970 and 1974, should be demolished and redeveloped because “the strength of concrete in these blocks is so low that redevelopment will be more cost-effective than repair”.