{"id":14896,"date":"2021-05-20T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/20\/the-hong-kong-institute-of-housing-urges-the-government-to-form-a-property-management-functional-constituency\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:30:00","slug":"the-hong-kong-institute-of-housing-urges-the-government-to-form-a-property-management-functional-constituency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/20\/the-hong-kong-institute-of-housing-urges-the-government-to-form-a-property-management-functional-constituency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hong Kong Institute of Housing Urges the Government to Form a Property Management Functional Constituency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\">HONG KONG SAR &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\" style=\"\"> Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 20 May 2021 &#8211;<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u00a0The property management (&#8220;PM&#8221;) profession&#13;<br \/>\nis a unique sector that is end-user-facing on an 24&#215;7 basis and covers all&#13;<br \/>\nbuildings and spaces that are over 5million citizens that are utilized by&#13;<br \/>\npeople. The property management professionals are the masterminds of over&#13;<br \/>\n700,000 frontline staff who are working in various facets in the property&#13;<br \/>\nmanagement industry. The profession also works closely with experts in related&#13;<br \/>\nsectors on regular basis and also on contingency management. But it is a pity&#13;<br \/>\nfor the community at large with the absence of their voices and comments that&#13;<br \/>\naffects the majority of Hong Kong citizens under the current electoral system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\">In view of this, a letter from the President of The&#13;<br \/>\nHong Kong Institute of Housing (&#8220;HKIH&#8221;), Ms Yu Chun, to the Chief Executive of&#13;<br \/>\nthe Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Ms Carrie Lam, GBM, GBS,&#13;<br \/>\ndelivered by end of April 2021 urges the government to consider recognizing the&#13;<br \/>\nPM profession as a functional constituency under the existing electoral system&#13;<br \/>\nin Hong Kong. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The HKIH proposed the PM functional&#13;<br \/>\nconstituency for the first time in 2014. Yet it has been a pity that the&#13;<br \/>\nGovernment has not confirmed any roadmap for the cause. With the setup of Property&#13;<br \/>\nManagement Services Authority in 2016 and implementation of the PM licensing&#13;<br \/>\nscheme in 2018, the need for the PM profession to be better-represented in form&#13;<br \/>\nof a functional constituency becomes acute.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Official&#13;<br \/>\nstatistics indicated that over 12,000 professionals were engaged in PM related&#13;<br \/>\nservices in Hong Kong in 2020, covering essential daily management of&#13;<br \/>\nresidential, commercial, retail, and GIC spaces which kept society and&#13;<br \/>\ncommunity in efficient operation. According to scientific projection, the&#13;<br \/>\nvolume of workforce in the PM sector will rise to over 14,000&#13;<br \/>\nin 10 years&#8217; time. This number accommodates organic growth only, without taking&#13;<br \/>\ninto account of any ad hoc need or unforeseeable occasions. \u00a0Referencing the number of registered voters by&#13;<br \/>\nfunctional constituencies in 2020, both the number of current and projected&#13;<br \/>\nnumber of PM professionals in 10 years have already exceeded several key&#13;<br \/>\nconstituencies in the existing electoral system. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nPM industry comprises more than diligent frontline practitioners serving&#13;<br \/>\nvarious parts of the community. In essence, PM professionals are the strategic&#13;<br \/>\nmasterminds behind all frontline staff who perform carefully the systemized and&#13;<br \/>\nlaw-binding duties efficiently and effectively, so as to safeguard property and&#13;<br \/>\nsafety and wellbeing of owners\/occupiers and users. The profession contributes&#13;<br \/>\nextensively to the welfare of the society, in particular at times of crisis. It&#13;<br \/>\nalso stays in tune with local communities to get the pulse of public concerns&#13;<br \/>\nwhile formulating practical solutions to issues arising in the society.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\">Over the years, elite members of the HKIH have been&#13;<br \/>\nthe key drivers of numerous local initiatives and on formulating land\/housing&#13;<br \/>\npolicies aiming to improve urban living conditions, ranging from hygienic&#13;<br \/>\nissues and public safety to urban renewal and city competitiveness.<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\"> The PM&#13;<br \/>\nprofession holds transcending responsibilities and given <\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">its increasing contribution and&#13;<br \/>\nsignificance, PM sector should be considered as a functional constituency to&#13;<br \/>\nreflect its place in upholding public interest and acting as a trusted&#13;<br \/>\ninterface between the HKSAR Government and the profession.<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"normaltextrun\">&#8220;The HKIH has received an official <\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\">reply from the Secretary&#13;<br \/>\nfor Constitutional and Mainland Affairs outlining their goals in improving the&#13;<br \/>\nelectoral system. With our official appeal to form a PM Functional Constituency&#13;<br \/>\nfor the future wellbeing of Hong Kong at large, we urge the Government to&#13;<br \/>\nrecognize the rightful position of the PM profession and to perfect the&#13;<br \/>\nelectoral system in due course,&#8221; commented Ms Yu Chun, President of the HKIH.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-05-20\/78729\/the-hong-kong-institute-of-housing-urges-the-government-to-form-a-property-management-functional-constituency\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 20 May 2021 &#8211;\u00a0The property management (&#8220;PM&#8221;) profession&#13; is a unique sector that is end-user-facing on an 24&#215;7 basis and covers all&#13; buildings and spaces that are over 5million citizens that are utilized by&#13; people. 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