Housing Bureau

Housing Bureau
Agency overview
房屋局

Formed	2022
Jurisdiction	Government of Hong Kong
Headquarters	26/F, Immigration Tower, 7 Gloucester Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Agency executives	Winnie Ho, Secretary Victor Tai, Under Secretary Charmaine Lee, Permanent Secretary Au Yeung Man-sin, Political Assistant
Parent department	Financial Secretary
Website	Official Website

Housing Bureau

Traditional Chinese

房屋局

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Fángwū Jú
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Fòhng Uk Gúk
Jyutping	Fong4 uk1 guk6

Housing Bureau (HB) is a policy bureau of the Government of Hong Kong. It is responsible for the housing portfolios. The agency was established on 1 July 2022. The current (since 1 July 2022) Secretary for Housing is Winnie Ho.

This bureau was newly established under the re-organization of policy bureaux proposed by Carrie Lam, the fifth Chief Executive of Hong Kong, and was adopted by John Lee, the succeeding Chief Executive after Carrie Lam.^[1] On 19 June 2022, the Central People's Government announced the appointment of Winnie Ho, previously the Director of Architectural Services, as the first Secretary for Housing.^[2]

Subordinate departments

There is only one department managed by the bureau:^[3]

Housing Department

References

↑ "New Hong Kong Leader's Vow to Fix Housing Crisis Draws Skeptics". Bloomberg.com. 2022-05-22. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
↑ "Principal Officials of Sixth-term HKSAR Government appointed (with photos)". 2022-06-19.
↑ "Organisation Chart of the Government of the HKSAR". 2002-06-28. Archived from the original on 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2022-07-02.

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