PH2 hostel

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.

2 Po Heung Street, Tai Po Market, New Territories

● Seventy single apartments

(187-232 square feet) Monthly: HK$4,050-HK$5,576

● Two 2-person apartments

(suitable for the disabled: 398 square feet) Monthly: HK$8,103-HK$8,156

● Two 3-person apartments

(152-189 square feet plus 160 square feet of shared living space) Monthly rent: HK$4,348-HK$5,365 per person with bed(s), bathroom, light cooking equipment, desk(s), wardrobe and storage

Open for application in 2022. Tenant eligibility

Age 18-30 years old

Monthly income level not exceeding:

● HK$24,100 (single occupancy) ● HK$48,200 for double occupancy

Total net assets

● HK$379,875 maximum for one-person households ● HK$759,750 for two-person households Exclusion Hong Kong residential property owners

Neighbourhood facilities

● Convenient bus routes to all parts of Hong Kong ● 5-8 minutes’ walk from Tai Po Market MTR station ● Adjacent to the Tai Po civic centre with its market, cooked food centre, library and gym

First tenancy duration Two years Renewable For up to five years More details ph2.hkfyg.org.hk/