Hong Kong businesses being forced out by massive Kwun Tong regeneration project slam relocation, compensation packages
South China Morning Post
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May 3, 2021
More than a dozen street vendors and business owners facing eviction from an old Hong Kong neighbourhood to make way for the city’s largest-ever redevelopment project have labelled the relocation and compensation packages on offer as unsatisfactory.
Most businesses originally operating as unauthorised shops in Yue Man Square – at the centre of the Kwun Tong renewal project – have accepted compensation deals from authorities.
But 13 hawkers who have operated in the area over four decades on an authorised basis have complained they are being turfed out of their own community.
A further three tradesmen are still awaiting relocation, while three unauthorised shop vendors refuse to leave.
Authorities last month evicted another shop owner in a sudden operation. The man had attempted to take his own life by jumping off a building, but was talked down by rescuers, according to media reports.
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