Chui Sai On
Following a protest on Sunday demanding more affordable housing in the territory, Chief Executive Chui Sai On told media on Monday that it was hard for him to make an “official promise” on any additional allocations. Speaking on the sidelines of a festive gathering hosted by the Macau Journalists Association, he stressed that the application process conducted in 2013 would not be the last one before he leaves his position in 2019.
Despite being unable to say when the next round of applications will come, the city’s leader answered concerns over the possibility of there being no more applications for affordable housing by saying that he “personally did not think” the 2013 applications would be the last during his tenure. He said that the government would “try its best to move in that direction.”
Chui added that related departments would release relevant information on public housing in the future if the government were to recover idle land plots, which are now undergoing judicial procedures. Around 150 protestors took to the streets on Sunday afternoon in opposition to the current system for determining eligible grantees for the scarce affordable housing units. AU
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