The government pledged in the 2001 Policy Address exercise to examine in 2002 the feasibility of a pilot scheme to provide rental allowances to eligible non-elderly households as an alternative means of providing public rental flats.

• 政府在二零零一年的《施政报告》中，承诺于二零零二年研究可否向合资格的非长者家庭提供租金津贴，代替提供租住公屋单位。