Hong Kong targeting ‘rich’ public housing tenants by checking value of vehicles and overseas properties
The Hong Kong government will step up efforts to combat “rich tenants” in subsidised public housing units, vowing to check the value of tenants’ vehicles and whether they own property in the city or overseas. Housing chief Winnie Ho announced the enhanced initiatives in an interview with Beijing-backed newspaper Tai Kung Pao on Monday, saying that they were necessary because of a limited supply of public housing. The Housing Department had revised income and assets declaration arrangements and strengthened online monitoring to identify tenants who were illegally subletting their units. Since O...