About 30,200 public rental housing (PRH) units will be available for allocation to various categories of applicants in 2024-25, according to the Hong Kong Housing Authority.

Of them, about 11,100 are new flats and about 19,100 recovered flats, the Authority said in a statement on Thursday.

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In the estimated PRH allocation for 2024-25, total 23,300 flats will be allocated to PRH applicants. Of them, 2,200 flats will go to non-elderly one-person applicants under the Quota and Points System, while the remaining 21,100 flats will be allocated to general applicants.

The Housing Authority reported that the actual allocation for 2023-24 was 23,598 flats, representing 97.9 percent of the original estimate

The authorities will reserve 1,200 flats for rehousing residents affected by clearance projects and 300 flats for rehousing residents affected by the Urban Renewal Authority’s redevelopment projects scheduled for 2024-25.

In addition, 700 flats will be reserved for compassionate rehousing.

Some 3,700 flats will be used for various transfer purposes, which involve the transfer of under-occupation households, the Transfer Scheme for Improving the Living Environment, and other transfer objectives.

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For the category of junior civil servants and pensioners, 1,000 flats will be reserved in 2024-25.

The Housing Authority reported that the actual allocation for 2023-24 was 23,598 flats, representing 97.9 percent of the original estimate.

“As individual projects undertaken by Aggressive Construction Company Limited were not completed as scheduled, the number of newly completed flats was 4 500 less than the original estimate,” the Authority said in the statement.

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On the other hand, as a result of the Housing Department’s continuous efforts in combatting the abuse of public housing resources, together with the intake of new subsidized sale flats, the number of recovered flats was about 4,100 more than the original estimate of 15,600, the authorities, it added.