Refugee slums in hong kong
Since 2006 refugees have been finding homes in isolated rural areas across the New Territories. Refugees are provided insufficient government assistance to rent legal housing, and are often handed lists of purported slum landlords in their hour of need. This questionable practice proactively leads refugees to settle in and develop distant ghettos where they are callously exploited with the complicit silence, if not collaboration, of caseworkers contracted to deliver welfare.
Vision First condemns such a practice that plausibly reaches the threshold of apartheid with the aim to segregate an undesirable social minority beyond public view. In this respect, we are extremely concerned about the knowledge, indifference and participation of Hong Kong Government in the apparent slumification of refugee livelihoods.
These long-term refugee slums deny refugees the most basic necessities, exposing them to safety and health hazards that challenge Hong Kong's established rule of law. We can only assume that the recent crackdown by the Lands Department on the proliferation of such slums is an initial step towards rectifying a problem of public interest and a great social injustice.
Slum reports and dates
NUMBER AND LOCATION
NAME
DATE
STATUS
Slum reports and dates
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
4. Ping Che 4
DATE: 16 Jul 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
7. Hung Shui Kiu 1
DATE: 3 Aug 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
10. Nai Wai 1
DATE: 4 Aug 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
13. Nai Wai 3
DATE: 6 Dec 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
17. Yuen Long 2
DATE: 22 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
18. Pat Heung 2
DATE: 20 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
19. Yuen Long 3
DATE: 11 Sep 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
22. Pat Heung 3
DATE: 22 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
23. Sheung Shui 2
DATE: 19 Sep 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
26. Yuen Long 7
DATE: 28 Sep 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
27. Chung Uk Tsuen 1
DATE: 2 Oct 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
28. Chung Uk Tsuen 2
DATE: 4 Oct 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
31. Pak Sha Tsuen 1
DATE: 30 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
32. Yuen Long 8
DATE: 10 Oct 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
33. Hung Shui Kiu 2
DATE: 3 Aug 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
34. Chung Uk Tsuen 4
DATE: 15 Oct 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
37. Yuen Long 9
DATE: 18 Oct 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
38. Lam Tei 2
DATE: 8 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
39. Pak Sha Tsuen 9
DATE: 30 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
40. Lam Tei 3
DATE: 27 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
47. Chung Uk Tsuen 5
DATE: 8 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
48. Hung Shui Kiu 3
DATE: 10 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
49. Hung Shui Kiu 4
DATE: 12 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
50. Hung Shui Kiu 5
DATE: 14 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
51. Pat Heung 3
DATE: 31 Oct 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
52. Chung Uk Tsuen 6
DATE: 16 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
53. Pat Heung 4
DATE: 20 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
54. Hung Shui Kiu 6
DATE: 27 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
55. Hung Shui Kiu 7
DATE: 29 Nov 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
57. To Kwa Wan 1
DATE: 3 Dec 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
60. Yuen Long 12
DATE: 8 Dec 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
61. Chung Uk Tsuen 7
DATE: 11 Dec 2013
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
66. Lam Tei 9
DATE: 21 Jun 2014
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
67. Hung Shui Kiu 8
DATE: 20 Nov 2014
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
68. Hung Shui Kiu 9
DATE: 24 Nov 2014
STATUS: Closed
NUMBER AND LOCATION:
69. Hung Shui Kiu 10
DATE: 26 Nov 2014
STATUS: Closed