About 29,700 public rental housing (PRH) flats will be available for allocation in 2025-26, the Housing Authority announced today.

In its estimated PRH allocation for 2025-26, the authority stated that there will be 8,800 new flats and 20,900 recovered flats for allocation to various categories of applicants, with 78.6% to be allocated to PRH applicants.

The allocation for non-elderly one-person applicants under the Quota & Points System is set at 10% of the total number of flats to be allocated to PRH applicants, with an upper limit of 2,200 flats.

As regards the allocation for other categories of applicants, the authority will reserve 1,200 flats to rehouse residents affected by contingencies such as clearance projects, emergency clearances and unauthorised rooftop structure clearances. Three hundred of these will be set aside to rehouse residents affected by the Urban Renewal Authority's redevelopment projects scheduled for 2025-26.

In response to the clearance programme at Wah Fu (I) Estate and Choi Hung Estate, 100 flats will be reserved under the authority’s Estate Clearance & Major Repairs category. In addition, 350 flats will be reserved for compassionate rehousing.

Some 3,700 flats will be used for transfers, which encompasses the transfer of under-occupied households, the Transfer Scheme for Improving the Living Environment, and other transfer initiatives.

One thousand flats will be reserved for junior civil servants in 2025-26.

Separately, for 2024-25, the authority reported that the actual allocation was 29,114 flats.