Dr Kwok-yu Lau, JP, is an Associate Professor of the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong. He previously taught at the University of Hong Kong. He joined City University of Hong Kong in 1985. Before starting his career in the university, Dr. Lau worked as a social worker in public housing estates, squatter areas and temporary housing areas. Between 1996 and 2002 he served as a full Member of the Hong Kong Housing Authority. Dr. Lau has been an Adviser of the Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy (now renamed Hong Kong People's Council on Housing Policy) since 1984. He is also an advisor of the Federation of Hong Kong, Kowloon, and New Territories Public Housing Estates Resident and Shopowner Organizations. He also serves on the Review Committee of the Urban Renewal Authority. He currently serves as a Resource Person of the Young Women's Christian Association. He has been serving as a Member of Panel of Experts in the Project on Social Development Index for Hong Kong of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service since 1999 and as a Member of the Guangdong Real Estate Research Association Experts Panel since 2002. He was a Member of the Housing Affairs Committee of the Kwai Tsing District Board and a Member of the Land Development Corporation Appeals Panel. He also served as a Member of the Housing Bureau (formerly known as the Housing Branch) Long Term Housing Strategy Review Steering Group between 1996 and 1998. His current and past researches focus on housing privatization in Chinese cities, housing affordability, owners' involvement in property management, targeting the housing needy.

Mr David C Lee is currently the Chairman of Hong Kong Housing Society. As a Chartered Valuation Surveyor and Authorised Person, Mr Lee is also the Chairman of David C Lee Group. Mr Lee has served in both the public and private sectors and has managed about 200 projects with a total floor area of over 150 million sq. ft. throughout his career.

In terms of community service, Mr Lee is the Chairman of Property Advisory Board of the Salvation Army, and Member of various public organizations, including the Cyberport Management Limited, Council and Executive Committee of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Land and Building Advisory Committee, Urban Renewal Authority's Sham Shui Po District Advisory Committee, Municipal Services Appeals Board, Election Committee of the 10^th National People's Congress HKSAR Election, Comprehensive Building Safety Loan Scheme Advisory Committee, Centre for Asian Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, etc.

Mr Lee has been awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star and Non-official Justice of the Peace. He is a University Fellow of the Hongkong Polytechnic University, and an Outstanding Alumni of the Hongkong Polytechnic University. He is also a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, a Registered Professional Surveyor, an Associate of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Yan Ki LEE is doctoral fellow at the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre (HHRC) of the Royal College of Art (RCA) London where Lee conducts action research projects with different design community members to develop new user-led design approaches. Trained as an architectural designer at both Hong Kong and London, Lee works intensively in a variety of design and research projects including Live-Work Business Incubator (London: The Peabody Trust Housing Association, 2000); Elderly Housing Typology and Participatory Design Workshops (Hong Kong: School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2002); Home project - Design and Desirable (London: Royal College of Art, 2003). In year 2002, Lee was awarded a doctoral research studentship at the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to develop user participation design methodology and question its applicability. With worldwide environmental design and research experience, Lee has contributed her knowledge to local community groups such as resident groups at Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate (II) to empower them to participate in design process for their future environment.

Shuk Fan CHU is currently the centre-in-charge of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, Ngau Tau Kok Community Development Centre. Since year 2000, Chu has worked closely with different resident groups at Ngau Tau Kok Estate (II). With abundant experience in different community development projects in Hong Kong, Chu is a well-trained social worker working with different marginal groups such as residents in squatter, temporary housing and old urban areas. Chu received her undergraduate degree of social work at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and got a master degree of sociology at University of Essex, United Kingdom.

The Lower Ngau Tau Kok( II ) Estate Redevelopment Concern Group, was estimated in 2000 and its aim is to concern the electing process of their reception estate. The result is that in June 2002, the Hong Kong Housing Authority decided to relocate the appointed the whole estate to a nearby site.

The Elderly Flats Concern Group, was also estimated in 2000 and it focus is to develop an elderly-friendly community through participation in early planning and design of the reception estate by the elderly users.

Dr. Hok Bun KU obtained Ph.D. in Anthropology and Sociology at the SOAS, University of London in 1999. Now he is assistant professor in the department of applied social sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. For more than 10 years he conducted frequent field studies in mainland China and Hong Kong and has written widely on rural politics, rural social work, women and social development in contemporary China, and women workers, south Asian minority, new immigrants, elderly and housing in Hong Kong. His recent published books are Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village: Responsibility, Reciprocity and Resistance (U.S.A: Roman & Littlefield, 2003); Social Exclusion and Marginality in Chinese Societies (Hong Kong: Center for Social Policy Studies, PolyU, 2003); Research, Practice and Reflection of Social Work in Indigenous Chinese Context (Beijing: Social Sciences Documentation Publishing House, 2004); A Research Report on the Life Experiences of Pakistanis in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Centre for Social Policy Studies, PolyU, 2003); We are Alive : Photonarrative of the Everyday Life of the Elderly Communities(Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2002).