Subdivided flat

According to a study by the Society for Community Organization, people living in subdivided flats are mainly unemployed citizens, low-income families and new immigrants.

[2] The insufficient supply of housing in Hong Kong is one of the important forces leading to subdivided units.

[3] As a result of the long wait, many people turned to subdivided flats, where the rentals are much cheaper than private housing.

[8] Residents are often unable to afford the electricity to air condition, they struggle to survive in unventilated and windowless rooms.

[11] Buildings with subdivided flats are densely populated and feature narrow corridors, complicating escape from fire and other dangers.

[12] A three-alarm fire occurred in a tenement in June 2011 at 111 Ma Tau Wai Road, killing four people and an unborn child and injuring 19.

Under the Community Care Fund Relocation Allowance,[15] the government launched an assistance programme for occupants to move out of partitioned flats in industrial buildings.

The Rating and Valuation Department is responsible for the implementation of the Ordinance, which include promoting public awareness of the regulatory regime; handling enquiries; providing free advisory and mediatory services to tenants and landlords on tenancy matters; and taking enforcement action as appropriate.

[19] The Government has engaged non-governmental organisations to set up six district Service Teams,[20][21][22][23][24][25] assisting Rating and Valuation Department to promote the new legislation to implement the tenancy control on subdivided flats at district level; raising public awareness of the new regulatory regime under the new legislation; and handling general enquiries, etc.