Hong Kong’s ‘Mr and Mrs Ho’ face eviction from public flat if his identify not added to tenancy – Cyber Tech

Hong Kong web sensations “Mr and Mrs Ho” should return a public housing flat to the federal government in the event that they proceed to dwell there with out registering him as a family member, authorities have mentioned.

Housing authorities launched an investigation after the whirlwind romance and marriage between 76-year-old Hongkonger Mr Ho and a 43-year-old mainland Chinese language lady turned the speak of the city in Could.

The couple, who have been residing in a public flat, flaunted their wealth, together with a Rolex watch and a diamond ring mentioned to price greater than HK$200,000, on a tv programme.

Their story triggered suspicions over their eligibility for public housing, with Mr Ho later discovered to not be a registered tenant of the flat so he mustn’t have been residing there.

Mrs Ho, in the meantime, solely moved into the flat lately and had not been included in a authorities asset declaration drive launched in April.

“The Housing Division has repeatedly reminded the tenant that if she wants to permit a non-household member to reside within the public housing unit, she should promptly apply to have his identify added to the tenancy,” it mentioned in a reply to the Put up on Tuesday.

“The division will in any other case take motion in keeping with the phrases of the tenancy settlement … however no utility has been obtained but.”

Tenants of public rental flats can apply so as to add their partner to the tenancy after filling in an utility kind and earnings and asset declaration assertion.

If a tenant continues to permit a non-household member to dwell within the flat, the authorities will take into account terminating the tenancy.

The investigation was a part of a wider initiative by the authorities in opposition to cheats who lied about their belongings to qualify for public flats.

Other than requiring tenants to make earnings and asset declarations each two years, the federal government has additionally been watching out for costly automobiles in public housing property automotive parks.

The federal government additionally reached out to mainland Chinese language authorities to look into their potential possession of property throughout the border.

Director of Housing Rosanna Regulation Shuk-pui mentioned in early August that about 5,000 public flats had been taken again over the previous two years from “well-off tenants”, equal to a medium-sized property.

Tenants of one other 12 flats additionally needed to return their houses after they have been discovered to personal properties on the mainland or in Macau that have been above the authorised asset restrict.

The Put up has approached Mrs Ho for remark.