Housing Bureau (HB) is one of the fifteen policy bureaux for 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
Winnie Ho Wing-yin is the current Secretary for Housing in Hong Kong, appointed on 1 July 2022 as part of John Lee (government official), John Lee's administration.
Biography
According to her government profile, Ho was a graduate of the Faculty ...
.
This bureau was newly established under the re-organization of policy bureaux proposed by
Carrie Lam
Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor ( Cheng; ; born 13 May 1957) is a retired Hong Kong politician who served as the 4th Chief Executive of Hong Kong from 2017 to 2022. She served as Chief Secretary for Administration between 2012 and 2017 and Sec ...
, the fifth
Chief Executive of Hong Kong
The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is the representative of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and head of the Government of Hong Kong. The position was created to replace the office of governor of ...
, and was adopted by
John Lee John Lee may refer to:
Academia
* John Lee (astronomer) (1783–1866), president of the Royal Astronomical Society
* John Lee (university principal) (1779–1859), University of Edinburgh principal
* John Lee (pathologist) (born 1961), English ...
, the succeeding Chief Executive after Carrie Lam. 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.
Subordinate departments
There is only one department managed by the bureau:
*
Housing Department
Housing Department (房屋署) is a department of Hong Kong Government and is the executive arm of the Hong Kong Housing Authority , managing public housing estates which is a statutory organisation tasked to develop and implement a public ...
References
External links
Hong Kong government policy bureaux
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