Hong Kong’s public housing policy was aimed at supporting “traditional families founded on opposite-sex marriage,” a government lawyer has told the city’s top court in an appeal over housing rights for same-sex couples married overseas. Heterosexual couples in Hong Kong had an “exclusive” right to apply for the Public Rental Housing scheme (PRH) and purchase flats through the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) through the spousal category, King’s Counsel Monica Carss-Frisk argued at the Court of Final Appeal (CFA) on Friday on behalf of the Housing Authority. Exclusivity was one of six grounds the Ho…
