Hong Kong’s average waiting time for public rental housing rose to 5.5 years as of September, despite more flats being allocated, with authorities attributing the marginal rise to longer waits for homes in urban districts.
The Housing Bureau said on Wednesday that the latest waiting time for general applicants – family or elderly households – in the past 12 months was slightly higher than the 5.4 years recorded at the end of June.
Between July and September, 5,600 general applicants were…