Research & Paper | November 17th, 2010 |

1. The outcome of the review on the “Urban Renewal Strategy” (Draft) (hereafter the “Draft Strategy”) is disappointing. Through struggles over the past years, as well as the statements they had presented at previous consultation meetings, members of the public made their dissatisfaction with the existing urban renewal policy very clear. However, the Draft Strategy indicated that the Government basically maintains the established practices, including unwilling to formulate an urban regeneration strategy, while the Urban Renewal Authority (hereinafter the “URA”) insists on its work principle of “focusing on redevelopment, neglecting rehabilitation”. The document also failed to address the question concerning redevelopment for whom, as well as to improve the disputes from compensation, and so on.

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