280 housing management committees set up

With the assistance of the Housing Bureau, some 280 management committees have been set up in the city.
According to the latest data released by the Bureau, it assisted 1,296 cases related to housing management-related affairs in the first three quarters of the year, of which 1,247 cases have been resolved and 49 are still being followed up.
Of the total number of cases that have been resolved, cases about providing information for holding a general meeting totaled 690.
The Bureau added that it received 2,398 phone enquires on related matters for the first nine months of the year.
Meanwhile, some 384 applications have been approved for the ‘Housing Management Support Scheme’ since its establishment in 2008 by the MSAR government. The scheme has assisted with the set-up of management committees for some 239 buildings in the city, with the amount of funding provided reaching MOP1.5 million (US$187,766).