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2024
2023

APR

The Preventive Maintenance Subsidy Scheme was launched to motivate property
owners to carry out preventive maintenance for their buildings. With cash subsidies,
owners are encouraged to compile building maintenance manuals to draw up a
periodic maintenance plan alongside establishing financial reserves for future
maintenance expenses in order to extend the service life of buildings and slow down
urban decay.

MAY

The “Habyt Bridges” co-living spaces,
comprising 38 domestic units in the nine
buildings acquired by URA, was launched to mark
a new chapter of the revitalisation of the Staunton
Street/Shing Wong Street neighbourhood. In
addition to preserving the old building structures
and putting them to adaptive reuses with revised
layouts, some spaces within the tenement
buildings are also being preserved as “common
rooms” for community members to gather,
connect and contribute to local development
during the process of community making.

The opening of the Museum of
Hong Kong Literature at 7 Mallory
Street (M7) in Wan Chai fostered the
position of M7 as a place where
“Cult ure Me et s C o mmunit y”.
Displaying valuable manuscripts,
public ations, and autogr aphs
of Hong Kong writers through
interactive installations, the museum
aims to promote Hong Kong literature
and writers, inspire a passion for
reading and writing among children
and youth, as well as foster the
inheritance and growth of Hong Kong
literature.

JUN

The Building Drainage System Repair Subsidy Scheme concluded with a record of
around 4,500 eligible applications since its inception in 2021. Considering that the
COVID-19 pandemic is over and most applicants of the Scheme have concurrently
applied for “Operation Building Bright 2.0”, which also covers the maintenance works for
common drainage systems, the Government and the URA decided to end the Scheme.

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