Small House Policy

Small House Policy
Small House Policy
Traditional Chinese	小型屋宇政策
Yale Romanization
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Síu yìhng ūk yúh jing chaak
Jyutping	Siu2 jing4 uk1 jyu5 zing3 caak3

The Small House Policy (SHP, Chinese: 小型屋宇政策) was introduced in 1972 in Hong Kong. The objective was to improve the then prevailing low standard of housing in the rural areas of the New Territories. The Policy allows an indigenous male villager who is 18 years old and is descended through the male line from a resident in 1898 of a recognized village in the New Territories, an entitlement to one concessionary grant during his lifetime to build one house.^[1]

The policy has generated debates and calls for amendments to be made.^[2]

^ Background brief on processing of small house applications and review of small house policy
^ Jake Vanderkamp (23 September 2004). "Dubious rights and plenty of wrongs behind small-house policy" (PDF). South China Morning Post. Retrieved 21 December 2009.

[1] Background brief on processing of small house applications and review of small house policy

[2] Jake Vanderkamp (23 September 2004). "Dubious rights and plenty of wrongs behind small-house policy" (PDF). South China Morning Post. Retrieved 21 December 2009.

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