Highest Investigation and Allocation Number (April 2012)

Family Size		District
		Urban		Extended Urban		New Territories		Islands
2-person		G 1 242 300		G 1 218 100		G 1 250 300		G 1 255 600
3-person		G 1 236 200		G 1 213 200		G 1 250 300		G 1 255 600
4-person		G 1 193 000		G 1 197 500		G 1 247 500		G 1 255 600
5-person		G 1 193 000		G 1 197 500		G 1 242 300		G 1 255 600
6-person		G 1 193 000		G 1 247 500		G 1 242 300		G 1 255 600
7-person or above		G 1 193 000		G 1 247 500		G 1 242 300		G 1 255 600

Family Size		District
		Urban		Extended Urban		New Territories		Islands
2-person		G 1 238 000		G 1 216 000		G 1 245 000		G 1 248 000
3-person		G 1 212 000		G 1 202 000		G 1 240 000		G 1 248 000
4-person		G 1 170 000		G 1 196 000		G 1 243 000		G 1 246 000
5-person		G 1 172 000		G 1 194 000		G 1 233 000		G 1 203 000
6-person		G 1 179 000		G 1 206 000		G 1 238 000		G 1 185 000
7-person or above		G 1 169 000		G 1 224 000		G 1 235 000		G 1 185 000

Note:

1. Any change of address, family particulars, or in the choice of districts, etc. should be reported to us immediately. Failure to do so may affect an applicant's chance of flat allocation.
2. Applicants must respond to all enquiries raised by us regarding their applications within the time specified.
3. Waiting List applicants under the Elderly Persons Priority Scheme, Families with Elderly Persons Priority Scheme, who opt for one flat in the Harmonious Families Priority Scheme, or with a Waiting List application number not exceeding G1242345/U0229365 (i.e. Waiting List applications with date of registration or equivalent date of registration on or before 30 September 2009) may choose to be allocated a public housing flat located in the Urban district (including Hong Kong Island and Kowloon).
4. The highest numbers of applications on the Waiting List who have accepted public housing offers shown in Table 2 are for reference only. Owing to different circumstances of individual applications, applications with numbers registered before the highest application numbers shown in Table 2 may not have been offered a flat due to various reasons, e.g. not fulfilling the residence rule, addition or deletion of family members, special allocation needs recommended on health or family grounds, re-vetting of eligibility by us, etc.

Highest Investigation and Allocation Number (April 2012)

Family Size		District
		Urban		Extended Urban		New Territories		Islands
1-person		U    254 200		U    254 200		U    249 100		U    249 100
2-person		G 1 268 300		G 1 268 300		G 1 262 500		G 1 262 500
3-person		G 1 268 300		G 1 268 300		G 1 262 500		G 1 262 500

Family Size		District
		Urban		Extended Urban		New Territories		Islands
1-person		U    251 000		U    249 000		U    248 000		U    237 000
2-person		G 1 262 000		G 1 261 000		G 1 261 000		G 1 210 000
3-person		G 1 261 000		G 1 214 000		G 1 247 000		G 1 205 800

Note:

1. Any change of address, family particulars, or in the choice of districts, etc. should be reported to us immediately. Failure to do so may affect an applicant's chance of flat allocation.
2. Applicants must respond to all enquiries raised by us regarding their applications within the time specified.
3. Waiting List applicants under the Elderly Persons Priority Scheme, Families with Elderly Persons Priority Scheme, who opt for one flat in the Harmonious Families Priority Scheme, or with a Waiting List application number not exceeding G1242345/U0229365 (i.e. Waiting List applications with date of registration or equivalent date of registration on or before 30 September 2009) may choose to be allocated a public housing flat located in the Urban district (including Hong Kong Island and Kowloon).
4. The highest numbers of applications on the Waiting List who have accepted public housing offers shown in Table 2 are for reference only. Owing to different circumstances of individual applications, applications with numbers registered before the highest application numbers shown in Table 2 may not have been offered a flat due to various reasons, e.g. not fulfilling the residence rule, addition or deletion of family members, special allocation needs recommended on health or family grounds, re-vetting of eligibility by us, etc.

Applications under investigation

Non-elderly one person applications registered on the Waiting List under the Quota and Points System before 1 March 2012 and have reached the score point of

139 by 1 March 2012 are being arranged for investigation.

Applications having accepted public housing offers

The lowest scores for non-elderly one-person applicants on the Waiting List registered under the Quota and Points System of the Waiting List having accepted public housing offers in individual application districts are:

Urban	145 points
Extended Urban	144 points
New Territories	167 points
Islands	148 points

Since the number of non-elderly one-person applicants and public housing supply vary in different application districts, the lowest scores having accepted housing offers in individual districts may also vary. Applicants may reconsider their choice of district according to their preference and the urgency of their housing needs. However, the choice of public housing in the Urban district (including Hong Kong Island and Kowloon) is subject to restrictions stated in note 3 below. Furthermore, the relative priority of allocation depends on the points awarded under the Quota and Points System, which is related to the age of the applicant at the time of registration, and there may be more older applicants reaching the allocation stage in any given period, the lowest score having accepted housing offer in a particular district may increase when compared with that of the previous month.

Note:

1. Any change of address, family particulars, or in the choice of districts, etc. should be reported to us immediately. Failure to do so may affect an applicant's chance of flat allocation.
2. Applicants must respond to all enquiries raised by us regarding their applications within the time specified.
3. Waiting List applicants under the Elderly Persons Priority Scheme, Families with Elderly Persons Priority Scheme, who opt for one flat in the Harmonious Families Priority Scheme, or with a Waiting List application number not exceeding G1242345/U0229365 (i.e. Waiting List applications with date of registration or equivalent date of registration on or before 30 September 2009) may choose to be allocated a public housing flat located in the Urban district (including Hong Kong Island and Kowloon).
4. The above lowest scores having accepted public housing offers are for reference only. Owing to different circumstances of individual applications, applications with scores higher than the above lowest scores may not have been offered a flat due to various reasons e.g. not fulfilling the residence rule, addition or deletion of family members, special allocation needs recommended on health or family grounds and re-vetting of eligibility by us, etc.

Noteworthy item (allocation of public rental housing flats with special circumstances)

Among the large number of public rental housing (PRH) flats, it is inevitable that a small number of them had been affected by special circumstances.  More serious ones involved suicide, homicide or accidental death inside the flat.  Others were once affected by loan shark harassment or serious drainage backflow.  This type of flats may have psychological effect on the applicants.  Based on the principle of rational allocation of public housing resources, we will allocate these flats together with other PRH flats through random computer batching to public housing applicants. If this type of flats is being allocated to an applicant, we will inform the applicant of the special circumstance(s) related to the flat in the offer letter.

These flats with special circumstances may have their merits in terms of district, transport network, ancillary facilities, layout, environment or orientation etc. If an applicant is informed of the allocation of this type of flats in the offer letter, we suggest the applicant to go to the estate for a flat inspection.  The applicant may also contact the estate office concerned for related information on the special circumstance and to learn more about the flat before making a decision as to whether to accept the offer. If the applicant finally decides to refuse such a flat, the allocation will not be counted as a valid allocation (except for flats self-selected through the various flat selection schemes such as Express Flat Allocation Scheme; Territory-wide Overcrowding Relief Transfer Scheme and Living Space Improvement Transfer Scheme for which the applicants have prior knowledge of the special circumstance(s)).

This Department will maintain lifelong data for flats with suicide, homicide, or accidental death which occurred inside the flat. Regarding other types of incidents, this department will remove the records after a reasonable duration from the occurrence of the incidents.  For example, record on “ex-tenant died inside flat for reason of sickness” will be removed after 10 years; loan shark harassment record will be removed after two years if no similar incident recurs.

Express Flat Allocation Scheme (EFAS) (2011)

The ‘Second Round Flat Selection’ procedures for applicants of 2 or more persons have been completed.  Flat selection procedures for applicants of one-person were commenced from 30 April 2012.  Basing on the numbers and districts of the remaining flats, Housing Department will invite applicants by batches to attend flat selection according to applicants’ choices and the sequence of the selection priorities.  Letters of notification for flat selection will be sent by mail to the applicants about 1 week before their flat selection slot.  For enquiries, please call Housing Authority Hotline at 2712 2712.