Since the 30th of last month, the government no longer issued quarantine orders to people diagnosed with the new crown, and community quarantine facilities have also been shut down one following another. Their future use has attracted much attention. According to reports, the government plans to convert the community isolation facilities in Kai Tak into youth dormitories, but not all of them.
According to the report, the Kai Tak community isolation facility has independent toilets and is close to the urban area. The conditions are better than other community isolation facilities, so it is more feasible to convert it into a youth dormitory.
The Kai Tak Community Isolation Facility was constructed using the Modular Construction method (MiC). It is a four-storey building with lifts. It provides a total of more than 2,700 units, including large units for multi-person households and also for the disabled The accessible unit of , which was commissioned in August last year. When the Housing Bureau introduced the “simple public housing” recently, the 330-square-foot demonstration flats for subdivided flat households, members of the Legislative Council and the media to visit were also set up in the Kai Tak Community Isolation Facility, converted from the original isolation units.
In response to the future arrangements for community isolation facilities, Chief Executive Lee Ka-chao said on Tuesday that he has appointed Deputy Financial Secretary Huang Weilun to take charge of coordinating to ensure that Hong Kong has certain backup emergency facilities and at the same time release land and reuse isolation facilities in stages. A government source also said a few days ago that they are open to converting the isolation facilities to other uses, including “simple public housing”, and will cooperate with the deputy secretary to coordinate.
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/Local/with independent toilets – close to the urban area and good conditions – Kai Tak isolation facilities are planned to be converted into youth dormitories / 359417?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
