After the housing bureaux and the housing department completed a feasibility study , the housing authority endorsed in july 2001 a pilot scheme for granting rent allowances to eligible elderly households who had registered on the waiting list for two years and were due for flat allocation or elderly households due to be rehoused under the committed categories 于2001年7月，房屋委员会正式展开一次试验计划，给予已在轮候册上即将获得分配单位，或因某几种情况而需迁居的合资格长者家庭为期两年的租金津贴。
It is twice as high as in germany ( three times on a per capita basis ) ; significantly more per head than in what were traditionally regarded as high housing expenditure countries , the netherlands and sweden ; but less than in the uk , with its high spending on social housing and personal rent allowances ( table 9 . 1 ) 它是德国的两倍（以人均为基础则是3倍） ，摊到每个人头上比那些被传统上认为是高住房花费的国家，如荷兰和瑞典，还要高出很多，但是比英国花费要少，英国在社区住宅和个人租赁津贴上花了大量的财力（表9 . 1 ） 。
