Pioneering social housing innovations with unprecedented cross sector partnerships
– Light Home: In 2013, Light Be launched its Light Home scheme, which links landlords with underutilised properties and families in need through an affordable rental scheme with family empowerment support. To date, Light Home has empowered over 400 families
– Sham Tseng Light Housing: In 2016, Light Be partnered with the Hong Kong Government and a charitable foundation to revitalize an abandoned 50-year-old textile factory in Sham Tseng housing up to 90 underprivileged families. The partnership signifies a first-of-its-kind public-social enterprise collaboration and was featured in the Chief Executive’s 2017 Policy Address
– Light Village (in progress): Direct collaboration a real estate developer, New World Development to utilise agricultural land in the New Territories to develop social housing that incorporates creativity and culture