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主席的話
香港房屋委員會（房委會）今年年報以「齊心抗疫
和諧安居」為主題，是希望展示房委會在抗疫防疫及
為公共租住房屋（公屋）居民提供衞生安全的居住
環境所作的努力。
受2019冠狀病毒病疫情影響，香港以至全球各地在
2020/21年度都變得不一樣，對房委會的工作來說更
是不平凡（特別）的一年。在2020年2月至9月將新落
成的公共屋邨 ─ 火炭駿洋邨作臨時檢疫中心之用，
這是前所未有的。過去一年多，政府對多個公共
屋邨作出強制檢測公告和限制與檢測宣告，房委會
人員主動積極在指定的屋邨住宅大廈全面協調和執
行相關的檢測及檢疫行動。此外，房委會推出多項
紓困措施，幫助公屋和非住宅物業的租戶、資助
出售單位買家及個別有財政困難的家庭，亦支援政
府在社區推行的抗疫措施，例如追蹤緊密接觸者、
檢查排水管等。為此，今年年報特別增加一個專
章，詳述這些措施和前線人員的努力。
這段期間，儘管建築業界須遵照規定實施多項特
別抗疫措施，我們迎難而上，完成11個公營房屋項
目，涉及超過11 000個新單位。
作為房委會主席，我感謝房委會和轄下小組委員會／
附屬小組委員會的所有委員在過去一年盡心竭力推
展房委會的工作，亦全力支持各項防疫抗疫措施。
縱使實施了保持社交距離措施和在家工作安排，
房委會和轄下小組委員會／附屬小組委員會的定期
會議，大部分仍能如期舉行，處理重要政策和財務
事宜，並批出多份建築合約和物業管理服務合約。
Chairman’s Message
We adopt the theme “Fight the Virus, Live in
Harmony” for this year’s Annual Report of the Hong
Kong Housing Authority (HA) to showcase the HA’s
efforts in anti-epidemic work and providing a healthy
and safe living environment for public rental housing
(PRH) residents.
Given the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, 2020/21
was no longer the same for Hong Kong and other places.
It was indeed an extraordinary (and special) year for
the work of the HA. It is unprecedented for a newly
completed public housing estate – Chun Yeung Estate
in Fo Tan – to be used as a temporary quarantine centre
from February to September 2020. In the past year, the
Government issued Compulsory Testing Notices and
Restriction-testing Declarations to quite a number of PRH
estates during which, the HA staff took the initiative to
take up the overall coordination and implementation work
for testing and quarantine operations at designated PRH
blocks. Apart from providing various relief measures
to tenants of PRH estates and non-domestic properties,
subsidised sale flats (SSF) buyers and individual families
with financial hardship, the HA has been supporting the
Government’s community-wide anti-epidemic measures
such as contact tracing and drainage inspection. We have
therefore included in this Annual Report a dedicated
chapter on these special measures and the hard work of
our front-line staff.
Amidst the special anti-epidemic measures imposed on
the construction sector, we managed to overcome all
difficulties and completed 11 public housing projects
delivering more than 11 000 new flats during this period.
As Chairman of the HA, I would like to extend my personal
thanks to all members of the HA and its committees/
sub-committees for their unfailing support for the various
anti-epidemic measures in the past year whilst pressing
ahead with our ongoing work. Notwithstanding the social
distancing measures and work-from-home arrangements,
the HA and its committees/sub-committees have
managed to continue with almost all regular meetings
as scheduled and dealt with major policy and financial
matters, including award of construction and property
management services contracts.