State Council announced removal of Winnie Ho from housing chief post

The State Council has decided to remove Winnie Ho from the post of housing secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government.

The decision, made on Tuesday, was said to be in accordance with the Basic Law, and based on the suggestion of Chief Executive John Lee.

Winnie Ho joined the government in 1992 and became Director of Architectural Services in 2020. She was appointed Secretary for Housing in 2022 and became a Principal Official of the sixth term of the HKSAR government. She helped roll the policy of construct some 30,000 Light Public Housing units, shortening the Composite Waiting Time for Subsidised Rental Housing from 6.1 years to 4.8 years and enacted the Basic Housing Units Ordinance to eradicate substandard subdivided units in residential buildings in an orderly manner.