HKFYG December 2021∣Youth Hong Kong
PH2
affordable hostel co-living with life skills learning HKFYG’s youth hostel, PH2, gets its name from its address at Po Heung Street number 2. It’s in Tai Po Market and it opened its doors to the first residents last April. Since then, they have been creating a residential community of working young people. Complete with the shared facilities and services of the HKFYG Tai Po Youth SPOT, living in the hostel has also meant building stronger life skills and creating social networks as well as putting financial planning into practice. PH2 is the first youth accommodation to be completed and occupied as part of the Hong Kong government’s Youth Hostel Scheme, launched to tackle the problem of unaffordable housing. It is administered by the Home Affairs Bureau as a project for youth development where residents build their social capital in a new living environment while connecting with the community and getting to know each other. Built on the foundations of an early HKFYG Youth SPOT, the new building still has a youth centre on its lower floors, communal residential facilities on the second and third floors and accommodation all on the upper floors.
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