Average Waiting Time for Public Rental Housing (PRH)
It is the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA)’s objective to provide public rental housing (PRH) to low-income families who cannot afford to rent private accommodation. The average waiting time for PRH refers to the average of the waiting time of those general applicants (i.e. family applicants and elderly one-person applicants) who were housed to PRH in the past 12 months. It is not applicable to non-elderly one-person applicants under the Quota and Points System. Waiting time refers to the time taken between registration for PRH and first flat offer, excluding any frozen period during the application period (e.g. when the applicant has not yet fulfilled the residence requirement; the applicant has requested to put his/her application on hold pending arrival of family members for family reunion; the applicant is imprisoned, etc). If applicants take into account their waiting time under the Quota and Points System or their frozen period, they may perceive a longer waiting time than the average waiting time as announced by the HA.
In order to reflect more comprehensively the effectiveness in improving the living conditions of the public through providing different types of subsidised rental housing (including PRH and Government-led Light Public Housing (LPH)), the Chief Executive announced in 2022 Policy Address that Composite Waiting Time for Subsidised Rental Housing (CWT) would be introduced. The calculation method for CWT is largely the same as the average waiting time for PRH, which is to calculate the average of the waiting time of those general applicants who were housed to PRH or LPH in the past 12 months.
Latest Progress
For the latest information on the “Composite Waiting Time for Subsidised Rental Housing”, the average waiting time for PRH and number of PRH applications, please refer to the relevant webpage on the Housing Bureau’s website.
