A Hong Kong court has upheld two earlier rulings that supported the granting of subsidized housing benefits to same-sex couples, in another victory for the city’s LGBTQ+ community. The decision rejected appeals by the Housing Authority of the earlier rulings, which said some of its policies violated the constitutional right to equality.
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong court on Tuesday upheld two earlier rulings that supported the granting of subsidized housing benefits to same-sex couples, in another victory for the city’s LGBTQ+ community.
One of the policies denies same-sex couples married overseas eligibility to apply for public rental housing as an “ordinary family.” The other excludes same-sex married partners of owners of subsidized apartments from being defined as “family members” and “spouses,” blocking them from receiving joint occupancy and ownership rights that heterosexual couples enjoy.
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