Secretary for Housing

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Secretary for Housing 房屋局局長
Emblem of Hong Kong
Incumbent Winnie Ho since 1 July 2022
Housing Bureau
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Central People's Government nomination by Chief Executive
Inaugural holder	Ian Macdonald Lightbody
Formation	1973; 51 years ago (1973)
Website	HB

The Secretary for Housing (Chinese: 房屋局局長) in Hong Kong is responsible for housing related issues. The position was first created in 1973 and re-created in 2022 after renamed to Secretary for Transport and Housing in 2007.

List of office holders[edit]

Political party:   Nonpartisan

Secretaries for Housing, 1973–1988[edit]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
1		Ian MacDonald Lightbody 黎保德	1973	1977	Sir Murray MacLehose (1971–1982)
2		Alan James Scott 施恪	1 June 1977	14 May 1980		[1]
3		Donald Liao 廖本懷	15 May 1980	20 February 1985
					Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)
4		David Robert Ford 霍德	21 February 1985	August 1985		[2]
5		John Rawling Todd 杜迪	April 1986	31 March 1988
					Sir David Wilson (1987–1992)

Housing issues were handled by Secretary for District Administration between 1988 and 1994.

Secretaries for Housing, 1994–1997[edit]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Governor	Ref
6		Dominic Wong 黃星華	15 December 1994	30 June 1997	Chris Patten (1992–1997)

Secretaries for Housing, 1997–2002[edit]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
1		Dominic Wong Shing-wah 黃星華	1 July 1997	12 April 2002	1 year, 285 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	1

Secretaries for Housing, Planning and Lands, 2002–2007[edit]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
1		Michael Suen Ming-yeung 孫明揚	1 July 2002	30 June 2007	5 years, 0 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	2
						Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	2

Housing issues were handled by the Secretary for Transport and Housing between 2007 and 2022.

Secretaries for Housing, 2022–[edit]

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
1		Winnie Ho Wing-yin 何永賢	1 July 2022	Incumbent	1 year, 303 days	John Lee (2022–present)	6

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Organisation chart of Hong Kong Government