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The applicant must be 18 years of age or over. The applicant and his / her family members must be residing in Hong Kong and have the right to land in Hong Kong without subject to any conditions of stay (except for conditions concerning a limit of stay). Family members who are not living and have not landed in Hong Kong cannot be included in the application. |
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A person under 18 years of age must apply together with his / her parents or legal guardian. |
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The relationship between the applicant and the other family members must be either husband and wife, parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren, unmarried brothers and sisters or other dependent relatives who are willing to live with the applicant. |
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All married family members included in the application must apply together with their spouse (except for divorcee, widow / widower or spouse who is not living and has not landed in Hong Kong). |
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Only one of the married children of applicant may be included in the application. |
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At the time of allocation, at least half of the family members included in the application must have lived in Hong Kong for seven years and are still living in Hong Kong. Under the following circumstances, all children under the age of 18 are deemed to have fulfilled the seven-year requirement:
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Regardless of their place of birth and one of their parents having lived in Hong Kong for seven years; or |
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With established Hong Kong birth status as permanent resident. |
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The applicant or his / her family members must not (i) own or co-own any domestic property; (ii) have entered into any agreement to purchase a domestic property; or (iii) own more than 50% share in a company which owns domestic properties, at the time of registration up to the time when a tenancy agreement is signed upon allocation PRH. Domestic property includes any post-war domestic property, uncompleted private domestic property, uncontrolled or self-occupied pre-war domestic property, roof top structure approved by the Building Authority, domestic building lots and Small House Grants in Hong Kong. |
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The total monthly income and current net assets value of the applicant and his / her family members must not exceed the maximum income and total net assets value limits as laid down by the Housing Authority. Such limits are subject to annual review. At the time of filing on application and attending the interview to determine eligibility for PRH allocation, the applicant and family members must declare their income (deduction of 5% of income is allowed for employee's statutory contribution to the Mandatory Provident Fund or Provident Fund) and produce employment and salary certificates in the specified format as required by the Housing Authority. If they are self-employed, they have to produce documentary proof such as the Business Registration Certificate (photocopy), Trading and Profit and Loss Accounts, Balance Sheets, tax returns, receipts and records of business transactions for vetting. |
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The applicant and his / her family members must declare the assets they own, including: |
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Land (land in and outside Hong Kong);
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Landed properties (e.g. completed and pre-sale domestic, commercial and industrial properties, car parks and landed properties under Agreements for Sale and Purchase in and outside Hong Kong);
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Vehicles (e.g. private and commercial vehicles);
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Transferable vehicle licences (e.g. taxi and public light bus licences);
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Investments (e.g. mutual fund, unit trust fund, shares, deposits with brokers, commodity futures, paper gold, certificates of deposit, insurance plans and bonds, etc);
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Business undertakings (e.g. interest in business of sole proprietorship, partnership or limited companies and the various types of assets owned by the business);
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Bank deposits and cash in hand (e.g. current and fixed bank deposits in Hong Kong and foreign currencies and cash in hand in the amount of HK$5,000 or above). |
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The applicant and his / her family member owning assets must produce documentary proof for inspection. |
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New application from the whole household of existing PRH tenants will not be accepted. |
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Ex-owners / ex-joint owners or former recipients of various subsidized home ownership schemes such as the Home Ownership Scheme / Private Sector Participation Scheme, Mortgage Subsidy Scheme, Buy or Rent Option Scheme, Tenants Purchase Scheme, Home Purchase Loan Scheme and Home Assistance Loan Scheme are not allowed to apply for PRH. However, the Housing Department may grant special consideration to their application in the following circumstances subject to their fulfilment of other PRH eligibility criteria: |
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Bankruptcy;
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Financial hardship resulting in need for Comprehensive Social Security Assistance;
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Adverse changes to family circumstances such as divorce, death of bread-winner, etc;
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A significant drop in household income resulting in difficulties in financing the home purchase; or
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Households beset with medical and social problems but not to the extent to qualify for compassionate rehousing. |
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Applicants should submit supporting documents for consideration by the Housing Department. |
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Family members of various subsidized home ownership schemes are permitted to apply provided that their names have been deleted from the relevant records and subject to the fulfilment of other PRH eligibility criteria. |
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Purchasers of flats under the Home Ownership Scheme / Private Sector Participation Scheme, Buy or Rent Option Scheme and Tenants Purchase Scheme who have rescinded the Agreement for Sale and Purchase can only apply for registration on the WL after execution of the Cancellation Agreement, subject to the fulfilment of other PRH eligibility criteria. |
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Arrangements for processing divorce cases of WL applicants:
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Upon divorce, the party with the custody of children has the priority right to retain the original application if consent on the ownership of the application cannot be reached by both parties to the divorce;
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If the other party, irrespective of whether he / she gets the custody of any child, is still in need of PRH and can fulfil all WL eligibility criteria, a fresh application will be accepted with the registered date equivalent to that of the original application;
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The same arrangement will also apply before the Decree Absolute is issued on condition that an agreement on the custody of children can be reached by both parties to the divorce and documentary proof showing that the relevant divorce proceedings are in progress can be produced. Offer of PRH flats to such eligible applicants will be made in the form of conditional tenancies upon confirmation of their eligibility for PRH allocation. |
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In situation where tenancies are terminated due to the violation of the Marking Scheme for Estate Management Enforcement in Public Housing Estates or the tenancy agreements, the ex-tenants and authorized persons aged 18 or above as at the date of tenancy termination, except for interim housing (IH) licencees, will be barred from making fresh WL applications for two years. Live applications including IH licencees will be frozen for two years. This frozen period will not be counted as the waiting time. Upon rehousing to PRH, they will not be offered a flat of better quality, in respect of geographical locality, age of building and floor level. |
