<p>香港人陈世超认为他租住的 60 平方英尺的分租公寓就是他的家，他努力让位于深水埗的怡华大厦这个狭小的空间更宜居，通过重新粉刷墙壁和设置自己的厨房来改善居住环境。这位 72 岁的老人认为每月 3000 港元（约 383 美元）的租金非常适合他紧张的预算，因为他靠约 5000 港元的社会保障金生活，并获得 2500 港元的租金补贴。对于这位行动不便且长期患病的退休人士来说，这栋大楼也很适合他，因为它有电梯，距离当地的湿货市场仅 500 米（1640 英尺）。但陈在去年 12 月的合同中途被惊讶地告知，楼内的房东给超过 200 户家庭三个月的时间搬出。这个决定是由于装修计划，以确保这些物业符合即将于周日生效的《基本住房单位条例》。新法律规定，只有符合新最低标准的认证分租房屋才能在市场上出租。但当局允许房东在四年内进行整改的同时，继续出租不合格的物业。陈表示：“业主侵犯了我们的权利。我必须为自己发声。根据新法律，除非政府为租户提供住宿安排，否则将永远面临驱逐。” 怡华大厦的案例只是冰山一角，自去年 9 月立法者投票批准新的监管制度以来，情况愈发严峻。随着《基本住房单位条例》的生效，倡导者和专业人士呼吁确保为可能被迫迁移的分租住房租户提供稳定的临时住宿供应，并制定全面的执行计划以堵塞漏洞。目前大约有 22 万居民生活在分租房中。早前的政府调查还估计，约有 3.3 万间分租公寓——占全市总数的 30%——在被视为基本住房单位之前需要进行重大修缮。对于怡华大厦的居民来说，政府在驱逐公告发布一个月后介入。但问题尚未得到完全解决。住房局在陈和其他租户在 1 月份成为新闻头条后，部署了一家非政府组织提供帮助。尽管业主声称曾提前向租户提供三到 12 个月的宽限期，但住房局表示房东仍在探索这一安排，非政府组织将协助居民搬入临时住房或寻找其他私人物业。根据住房局的数据，截至 2 月底，在其联系的 138 户家庭中，有 43 户申请了过渡性公寓，10 户已搬入轻型公共住房，39 户的申请获得批准，可以在距离旧家仅五分钟步行路程的旅馆中入住单人房。社区组织的社区组织者 Angela Lui Yi-shan 指出，一些大楼居民在这些事件曝光之前就已被驱逐。这些居民已搬入该地区的其他不合格住房，这意味着当运营商决定修缮公寓以满足法律要求时，他们将再次被迫迁移。Lui 表示，低收入个人和两人家庭，如老年人和单亲家庭，将在新的监管制度下受到最严重的影响。她表示，这些居民只能租住租金约为 3000 港元的小型不合格物业，无法负担至少 86 平方英尺、拥有适当窗户和独立卫生间等要求的基本住房单位。她指出，质量更好的分租公寓的租金自然更高，经过装修后租约可能会增加 5% 到 15%。她说：“购买力最低和最弱势的人可能不得不在黑市上租住不合格的公寓或选择床位公寓。法律旨在改善生活质量……但我们需要观察在某些情况下生活质量是否下降。” 受新法律影响的租户可以申请临时住房，具体取决于可用性。等待公共租住房至少三年的居民可以申请政府建造的轻型公共住房，而其他人可以申请 2018 年推出的过渡性住房计划下的公寓。住房局局长何永贤早前表示，大约 4000 个过渡性公寓为受影响的分租公寓租户保留，并正在探索增加城市地区此类住房的供应。截至 12 月，约有 16690 个过渡性公寓投入使用，另有 2700 个计划在 2027 年前建成。Lui 表示，政府只有在有足够的住房供应和强有力的执行下，才能有效根除不合格住房并规范分租住房市场，因为租户往往选择沉默，而不是冒着失去住所的风险。她说：“租户往往不愿报告不合格的物业，因为他们可能会失去住所，尤其是当他们可能找不到适合自己需求的安置时。如果报告的负担落在租户身上，那就不理想。” 香港测量师学会前会长 Robin Leung Chi-tim 也呼应了对全面执行计划的需求，因为当局将从 2027 年 3 月开始采取行动。他表示，当局将有一份注册在三年宽限期内的运营商名单，但对于那些未申请并非法出租物业的房东，他们将一无所知。Leung 还观察到宽限期后可能存在另一个漏洞，因为新法律仅对一套公寓内的两个或更多分租住房租赁进行监管。一位业主可以声称他们只出租一个分租房，并在其余空间内居住，但实际上却将其物业出租给多个租户。他说：“这很难证明。执法人员必须进行卧底。政府必须制定有效的执法措施。” 尽管许多邻居已经搬走，陈表示他发现搬到新界的过渡性住房不方便，并对与附近旅馆的其他租户共享厨房表示不情愿。他已经排队申请公共租住房三年，并有资格申请轻型公共住房，但他不知道何时会被分配到临时公寓。“可能需要八到十个月。我无处可去。” 陈说。</p>

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<p>香港的新《基本住房单位条例》导致分租单位的租户被驱逐，因为房东必须遵守新的最低标准。许多居民，如 72 岁的陈世超，因装修计划面临搬迁。倡导者呼吁为 22 万受影响居民提供稳定的临时住房解决方案。该法律旨在改善居住条件，但低收入租户可能难以负担符合标准的住房，这可能导致他们的居住状况进一步不稳定。政府正在探索过渡性住房的选项，以帮助那些受到变化影响的人</p>

<p>Hongkonger Chan Sai-chiu considers the 60 sq ft subdivided flat he rents to be home, going out of his way to make the cramped space in Sham Shui Po’s ageing Yee Wa Building more liveable by repainting the walls and setting up his own kitchen. The 72-year-old considers the flat’s HK$3,000 (US$383) rent to be a perfect fit for his tight budget, as he lives off about HK$5,000 from social security payments and receives a rental subsidy of HK$2,500. The building also suits the retiree, who is chronically ill and struggles to walk, because it has lifts and is only 500 metres (1,640 feet) away from a local wet market. But Chan was caught by surprise last December, just in the middle of his two-year contract, when landlords for the building gave more than 200 households three months to move out. The decision was prompted by renovation plans to ensure the properties complied with the Basic Housing Units Ordinance, which takes effect on Sunday. The new law stipulates that only “basic housing units”, referring to certified subdivided homes that meet the new minimum standards, can be leased on the market. But authorities are allowing landlords to lease substandard properties while getting four years to make rectifications. “The owners have exploited our rights. I have to stand up for myself,” Chan said. “Under the new law, unless the government has accommodation arrangements for tenants, there will be evictions forever.” The Yee Wa Building case is just the tip of the iceberg since lawmakers voted to approve the new regulatory regime last September. As the Basic Housing Units Ordinance takes effect, advocates and professionals have called for ensuring a stable supply of temporary accommodation for subdivided housing tenants likely to be uprooted, along with a comprehensive enforcement plan to plug loopholes. There are currently about 220,000 residents living in subdivided homes. An earlier government survey also estimates that around 33,000 subdivided flats – 30 per cent of the city’s total – would require significant fixes before they could be deemed basic housing units. In the case of Yee Wa Building residents, authorities stepped in a month after the eviction was announced. But the issue has yet to be fully resolved. The Housing Bureau deployed an NGO to offer help after Chan and tenants made headlines in January. While the owners claimed to have earlier offered a three-to-12-month grace period to tenants, the bureau said the landlords were still exploring the arrangement and that the NGO would assist residents in moving to temporary housing or seeking other private properties. According to the bureau, as of late February, among the 138 households it had contacted, 43 had applied for transitional flats, 10 had moved to light public housing, and 39 had their applications approved to stay at a hostel offering single-person rooms just a five-minute walk from their old homes. Angela Lui Yi-shan, a community organiser at the Society for Community Organisation, noted that some building residents had already been evicted before such incidents had come to light. Such residents had moved to other substandard homes in the district, meaning that they would be uprooted again when the operators decided to fix the flats to meet legal requirements. Lui said low-income individuals and two-person households, such as the elderly and single-parent families, would be hit hardest under the new regulatory regime. Lui said such residents could only rent small, substandard properties with rents of about HK$3,000 and could not afford a basic housing unit, which must be at least 86 sq ft, have a proper window and come with an individual toilet, among other requirements. She noted that rents for subdivided flats of a better quality were naturally higher, and their leases could increase by 5 to 15 per cent following renovations. “Those with the lowest purchasing power and or the most underprivileged may have to resort to renting a substandard flat on the black market or resort to bed-space flats,” she said. “The law aims to improve living quality … but we need to observe whether the living quality has been downgraded in some cases.” Tenants affected by the new law can apply for temporary housing, subject to availability. Residents who have waited for a public rental home for at least three years can apply for the light public housing homes built by the government, while others can apply for flats under the transitional housing scheme introduced in 2018. Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho Wing-yin earlier said around 4,000 transitional flats were reserved for affected subdivided flat tenants, and was exploring increasing the supply of such homes in urban areas. As of December, around 16,690 transitional flats are in operation, and another 2,700 are set to be built by 2027. Lui said that the government could only eradicate substandard housing and regulate the subdivided housing market effectively with sufficient housing supply and strong enforcement, as tenants tended to stay quiet rather than risk losing their homes. “Tenants tend not to report substandard properties as they can lose their homes, especially when they may not find a resettlement suitable to their needs. It is not ideal if the report burden lies on tenants,” she said. Robin Leung Chi-tim, the immediate past president of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, echoed the need for a comprehensive enforcement plan, as authorities would only start taking action from March 2027. He said authorities would have a list of operators registered for the three-year grace period, but they would be kept in the dark about landlords who did not apply and were leasing their properties illegally. Leung also observed another possible loophole after the grace period, as the new law only regulated two or more subdivided housing tenancies in a flat. A homeowner could claim that they only leased one subdivided home and were living in the rest of the space, but were actually letting out their properties to several tenants, he said. “It can be difficult to prove. Officers have to go undercover. Authorities have to devise effective enforcement actions,” he said. While many of his neighbours have since moved out, Chan said he found relocating to transitional housing in the New Territories inconvenient and expressed reluctance to share a kitchen with other tenants in a nearby hostel. He has queued for public rental housing for three years and is eligible for a light public home, but he does not know when he will be allocated a temporary flat. “It can take eight or 10 months. I have nowhere to go,” Chan said.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>香港人陈世超认为他租住的 60 平方英尺的分租公寓就是他的家，他努力让位于深水埗的怡华大厦这个狭小的空间更宜居，通过重新粉刷墙壁和设置自己的厨房来改善居住环境。这位 72 岁的老人认为每月 3000 港元（约 383 美元）的租金非常适合他紧张的预算，因为他靠约 5000 港元的社会保障金生活，并获得 2500 港元的租金补贴。对于这位行动不便且长期患病的退休人士来说，这栋大楼也很适合他，因为它有电梯，距离当地的湿货市场仅 500 米（1640 英尺）。但陈在去年 12 月的合同中途被惊讶地告知，楼内的房东给超过 200 户家庭三个月的时间搬出。这个决定是由于装修计划，以确保这些物业符合即将于周日生效的《基本住房单位条例》。新法律规定，只有符合新最低标准的认证分租房屋才能在市场上出租。但当局允许房东在四年内进行整改的同时，继续出租不合格的物业。陈表示：“业主侵犯了我们的权利。我必须为自己发声。根据新法律，除非政府为租户提供住宿安排，否则将永远面临驱逐。” 怡华大厦的案例只是冰山一角，自去年 9 月立法者投票批准新的监管制度以来，情况愈发严峻。随着《基本住房单位条例》的生效，倡导者和专业人士呼吁确保为可能被迫迁移的分租住房租户提供稳定的临时住宿供应，并制定全面的执行计划以堵塞漏洞。目前大约有 22 万居民生活在分租房中。早前的政府调查还估计，约有 3.3 万间分租公寓——占全市总数的 30%——在被视为基本住房单位之前需要进行重大修缮。对于怡华大厦的居民来说，政府在驱逐公告发布一个月后介入。但问题尚未得到完全解决。住房局在陈和其他租户在 1 月份成为新闻头条后，部署了一家非政府组织提供帮助。尽管业主声称曾提前向租户提供三到 12 个月的宽限期，但住房局表示房东仍在探索这一安排，非政府组织将协助居民搬入临时住房或寻找其他私人物业。根据住房局的数据，截至 2 月底，在其联系的 138 户家庭中，有 43 户申请了过渡性公寓，10 户已搬入轻型公共住房，39 户的申请获得批准，可以在距离旧家仅五分钟步行路程的旅馆中入住单人房。社区组织的社区组织者 Angela Lui Yi-shan 指出，一些大楼居民在这些事件曝光之前就已被驱逐。这些居民已搬入该地区的其他不合格住房，这意味着当运营商决定修缮公寓以满足法律要求时，他们将再次被迫迁移。Lui 表示，低收入个人和两人家庭，如老年人和单亲家庭，将在新的监管制度下受到最严重的影响。她表示，这些居民只能租住租金约为 3000 港元的小型不合格物业，无法负担至少 86 平方英尺、拥有适当窗户和独立卫生间等要求的基本住房单位。她指出，质量更好的分租公寓的租金自然更高，经过装修后租约可能会增加 5% 到 15%。她说：“购买力最低和最弱势的人可能不得不在黑市上租住不合格的公寓或选择床位公寓。法律旨在改善生活质量……但我们需要观察在某些情况下生活质量是否下降。” 受新法律影响的租户可以申请临时住房，具体取决于可用性。等待公共租住房至少三年的居民可以申请政府建造的轻型公共住房，而其他人可以申请 2018 年推出的过渡性住房计划下的公寓。住房局局长何永贤早前表示，大约 4000 个过渡性公寓为受影响的分租公寓租户保留，并正在探索增加城市地区此类住房的供应。截至 12 月，约有 16690 个过渡性公寓投入使用，另有 2700 个计划在 2027 年前建成。Lui 表示，政府只有在有足够的住房供应和强有力的执行下，才能有效根除不合格住房并规范分租住房市场，因为租户往往选择沉默，而不是冒着失去住所的风险。她说：“租户往往不愿报告不合格的物业，因为他们可能会失去住所，尤其是当他们可能找不到适合自己需求的安置时。如果报告的负担落在租户身上，那就不理想。” 香港测量师学会前会长 Robin Leung Chi-tim 也呼应了对全面执行计划的需求，因为当局将从 2027 年 3 月开始采取行动。他表示，当局将有一份注册在三年宽限期内的运营商名单，但对于那些未申请并非法出租物业的房东，他们将一无所知。Leung 还观察到宽限期后可能存在另一个漏洞，因为新法律仅对一套公寓内的两个或更多分租住房租赁进行监管。一位业主可以声称他们只出租一个分租房，并在其余空间内居住，但实际上却将其物业出租给多个租户。他说：“这很难证明。执法人员必须进行卧底。政府必须制定有效的执法措施。” 尽管许多邻居已经搬走，陈表示他发现搬到新界的过渡性住房不方便，并对与附近旅馆的其他租户共享厨房表示不情愿。他已经排队申请公共租住房三年，并有资格申请轻型公共住房，但他不知道何时会被分配到临时公寓。“可能需要八到十个月。我无处可去。” 陈说。</p>
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Are new Hong Kong subdivided flat standards triggering a wave of evictions?

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新的香港劏房标准是否正在引发一波驱逐潮？