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Temporary Shelter / Urban Hostel for Single Persons
* Service Description
To provide short-term accommodation and counselling for needy persons and street sleepers so as to encourage them to be self-reliant and help them seek alternative long-term accommodation.
   
* Target Group
Street sleepers, bedspace apartment lodgers and homeless persons, particularly the aged, disabled, or those in weak health.

* Application Procedures
Referred by social workers.

* Fees and Charges
Temporary shelter : the majority of the shelters offer free accommodation service
Urban hostel for single persons: within the maximum rent allowance of CSSA scheme.

* List of Temporary Shelters / Urban Hostels
Can be downloaded here. PDF Acrobat  Document MS-Word MS Word Document

 

 

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