In an effort to increase the supply of public housing, the Government has
announced to provide 79 000 PRH flats between 2012-2013 and 2016-2017, as
well as about 17 000 subsidized sale flats over the four years starting from
2016-2017. However, some Members are of the view that the Government has
not addressed the fundamental issues such as the difficulty in securing land for
residential development and the misallocation of PRH resources