• The applicant and nominator should both be public rental housing households living in PRH flats located in different District Council (DC) districts.  The applying family must obtain the nomination from their correlative elderly parent(s)/parent(s)-in-law or younger generation (child /child-in-law).

• The elderly parent(s)/parent(s)-in-law must be an all elderly PRH household (i.e. all household members aged 60 or above).

• The applicant and nominator must provide documentary proof on their relationship.

• Household size of the applying family must not exceed 9 heads.

• The applying family will be allocated a suitable flat in the nominator’s residing estate. In the absence of housing resources, a suitable flat in the nearest available estate will be allocated.

• Allocation will be arranged by computer batching and only ONE single offer of one flat will be made for each application. Due to the limitation of an allocation quota, if the number of applications received for this exercise exceeds the said quota, the Housing Department cannot guarantee that every eligible applicant can be allocated with a suitable flat. Upon exhaustion of the quota, unsuccessful applications with low priority of flat selection will be cancelled, and applicants have to apply afresh when HFT exercise is again launched.

Restrictions on Flat Allocation
Eligible applicants belonging to one of the three categories listed below may be allocated with a suitable flat, regardless of Waiting List application district, in the estate in which the nominating family is currently living in or a nearby estate, so far as the applicant family and the nominating family are living in different District Council districts.

applying households with residence period ^note of 7 years or more in PRH on the application deadline of this exercise (the commencement date of the PRH residence period should thus fall on or before 15 June 2005);

either the applying or nominating family has a child aged below six at the commencement date of the application period (date of birth of the child should fall on or after 18 April 2006), and the applying family has a PRH residence period of 5 years or more (the commencement date of the residence period should thus fall on or before 15 June 2007); or

either the applying or nominating family has an authorized member with 16 weeks gestation or above on the closing date of application period (the expected delivery date should fall on or before 30 November 2012), and the applying family has a PRH residence period of five years or more (the commencement date of the tenancy must fall on or before 15 June 2007).

Note : Applicants are advised to enquire their respective Estate Office or District Tenancy Management Office for their PRH residence period.

• Applicants with PRH residence period less than above-described are still subject to the following locality restrictions :

• Flats suitable for the family sizes of the applicant families will be allocated according to the prevailing public rental housing Allocation Standards.

Interested and eligible households can obtain a Letter of Intention and Application Form from their respective Estate Offices or District Tenancy Management Offices. They should complete the application form and submit it together with the signed Letter of Intention, copy of tenancy agreement from nominating family and supporting relationship documentary proof to their respective Estate Offices/District Tenancy Management Offices in person during office hours from 17.4.2012 to 15.6.2012.

Offer letters will be issued to successful applicants according to their priority of allocation starting from end of August 2012. The duration of allocation depends on the number of applications received and the availability of housing resources in the target districts of allocation.