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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kanis Leung

Hong Kong government offers to buy apartment ownerships from fire victims

Hong Kong Resettlement After Fire - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Hong Kong officials on Saturday unveiled resettlement plans for thousands of people who were displaced by the deadliest blaze in decades last November, proposing to buy back the homeownership rights from the fire victims.

Almost three months after the massive blaze spread across seven apartment buildings in Wang Fuk Court, its former occupants have been living in uncertainty about when they would find somewhere they could call home again.

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