Incentive Scheme to Encourage Provision of Residential Care Homes for Persons with Disabilities (RCHDs) in New Private Developments

The Government, modelling on the prevailing “Incentive Scheme to Encourage Provision of Residential Care Home for the Elderly Premises in New Private Developments” (Incentive Scheme for RCHEs), has launched the “Incentive Scheme to Encourage Provision of Residential Care Homes for Persons with Disabilities in New Private Developments" (Incentive Scheme for RCHDs) in December 2023, with a view to encouraging the provision of RCHDs in new private developments and helping improve the waitlisting situation of subsidised RCHD places in the long run. The time-limited enhancement concessions for the Incentive Scheme for RCHEs, introduced in June 2023 on a three-year pilot period, also apply to the Incentive Scheme for RCHDs on a three-year pilot basis.

Under the Incentive Scheme for RCHDs, private developers, in the course of land transactions relating to lease modification, land exchange or private treaty grant for new private developments (excluding industrial developments), will be exempted from payment of land premium, on the condition that the developer should comply with certain lease conditions and obtain support from the Social Welfare Department. During the three year pilot period, the total gross floor area (GFA) of the eligible RCHD premises will be exempted under lease and will not be counted in the original total GFA of the entire project under lease.

For more information about the Scheme, please download from here. For further enquiry, please contact Senior Social Work Officer (Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services)2 of the Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch at 3586 3371.

Item / Name	Download File
Guidance Note	PDF/ Word
Best Practices in Design and Operation of RCHD	PDF/ Word
Best Practices Guideline: Basic Provision Schedule for Basic Building Works, Building Services Installation and Kitchen and Laundry Equipment Lists for various types of RCHDs
Hostel for Severely Mentally Handicapped Persons	PDF/ Word
Hostel for Severely Physically Handicapped Persons	PDF/ Word
Hostel for Moderately Mentally Handicapped Persons	PDF/ Word
Supported Hostel for Mentally Handicapped Persons	PDF/ Word
Supported Hostel for Mentally/ Physically Handicapped Persons	PDF/ Word
Supported Hostel for Persons in Mental Recovery	PDF/ Word
Long Stay Care Home	PDF/ Word
Halfway House	PDF/ Word
Care and Attention Home for Severely Disabled Persons	PDF/ Word
Care and Attention Home for the Aged Blind	PDF/ Word

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