Hong Kong’s housing authorities have opened up functions for public rental and subsidised properties to same-sex {couples} as a part of efforts to handle a ruling from the town’s prime courtroom final yr, the Submit has discovered.
The measures, together with modifying the applying kind for looking for second-hand subsidised properties, had been carried out with none public announcement.
Whereas lawmakers stated the federal government had responded to the Courtroom of Ultimate Enchantment’s choice prudently and inside an inexpensive timeframe, a priority group expressed hope that the modifications may have been publicly introduced.
In a reply to the Submit, the Housing Authority stated: “Upon receiving [public rental home] functions involving same-sex married spouses, we’ll deal with the case in accordance with the follow adopted for the ‘unusual households’ applicant class.”
A spokesman added that the authority would proceed to course of such functions and people for getting subsidised flats from same-sex married {couples}.
The authority had but to obtain any public rental housing functions from any same-sex {couples} as of Thursday.
