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TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

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<strong>The</strong>me B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable cities3.2 Communication with Residents<strong>The</strong> HA vision for sustainability is to benefit all of our stakeholders. Clear andongoing communications play an essential role in HA activities, ensuring thatstakeholders are fully informed of HA plans, while also giving them anunderstanding of, and ability to respond to initiatives to help ensure their success.Launched in 1995, “Estate Management Advisory Committees” (EMAC) serves asa very useful vehicle for tenants to contribute towards better management of ourestates, acting as bridges between HA and the residents (Photo 1). Serving as anadvisory body, they make suggestions on day-to-day management issues and helpto assess the performance of contractors and to allocate funds for minorimprovement works. In 2005/06, more than 260 issues of the half-yearly EMACnewsletter were produced, keeping the two million public housing tenants in touchwith important housing issues as well as local estate news.Photo 1: Event Organized by EMAC Played a Vital Role on StakeholderEngagement<strong>The</strong> “Housing Channel”, launched in 2004, has been extended to cover over 850 residential blocks in closeto 130 estates. Video programmes on housing-related matters are broadcast on Liquid Crystal Displaysmonitors installed in the ground floor lift lobbies of residential blocks. <strong>The</strong> channel enhance communicationbetween the HA its tenants and keeps them informed of new services and developments within their estates.Over 50 videos on housing related matters were produced, including topics on developments in the Review ofDomestic Rent Policy, the Total Maintenance Schemes, the Rent Assistance Scheme, the promotion of greenpractices in estates, and even news and weather information.293

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