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Compassionate rehousing (CR) is recommended by the Director of Social Welfare (DSW). Such cases in general involve hardships of various nature on the part of the applicants like serious illness, disability, social problem or living problems faced by elderly owner-occupiers of dilapidated properties.
Under CR Scheme, Conditional Tenancy (CT) is recommended to help those who are assuming custody of child(ren) and on divorce proceedings to meet their genuine and imminent housing needs while awaiting the court decision on their divorce applications. With effect from November 2001, Housing Department (HD) has extended CT to cover victims of domestic violence having petitioned for divorce but who have no offspring or have not brought along any dependent children when leaving their matrimonial home. SWD recommends eligible applicants to HD for temporary residence in the form of CT in public rental housing (PRH) unit.
To address the living problem encountered by elderly property owner-occupiers (EPOs) living in private dilapidated buildings, HD and SWD have agreed, with effect from June 2004, to an ex-gratia scheme to assist those eligible EPOs to move into Housing for Senior Citizens (HSC) on a licence basis, as a transitional arrangement, under the CR consideration. With effect from July 2005, the Housing Authority modified the Scheme to allow allocation of self-contained PRH units on licence to EPOs upon their refusal of offers of HSC units.
The public may apply directly to Family Services Centres or Social Security Field Units of the Social Welfare Department (SWD), or through the Medical Social Unit under the subvented hospitals, voluntary agencies as approved by the SWD or Probation Offices for compassionate rehousing. After confirmation of the eligibility of an applicant through investigation, the DSW will recommend the case to the Housing Department for allocation of a suitable flat.
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