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Between August 2024 and April 2023, the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) issued several press releases regarding housing schemes and allocations, including:
1. **Sale of Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) Flats 2024**: On August 27, the HA’s Subsidised Housing Committee approved the average selling prices and sales arrangements for the HOS 2024 and the income and asset limits for White Form applicants. After launching HOS 2023 and the Sales of Green Form Subsidised Home Ownership Scheme Flats 2023, which offered about 12,000 flats in total, the HA planned to launch HOS 2024 with applications opening in Q4 2024. A 40% quota of new flats for sale under HOS 2024 was reserved for balloting and priority flat selection by eligible applicants under the Priority Newborns Scheme and Priority Scheme for Families with Elderly Members.
Source: [info.gov.hk](https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202408/27/P2024082700185.htm)
2. **Estimated Public Rental Housing (PRH) Allocation for 2024-25**: On June 13, the Subsidised Housing Committee of the HA approved estimated allocations for 2024-25. They projected approximately 30,200 PRH flats to be available, consisting of about 11,100 new flats and about 19,100 recovered flats, for allocation to various categories of applicants. Any unallocated flats reserved under specific categories would be reallocated to other PRH applicants.
Sources: [info.gov.hk](https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202406/13/P2024061300252.htm), [webnewswire.com](https://www.webnewswire.com/2024/06/13/hong-kong-hong-kong-housing-authority-approves-estimated-public-rental-housing-allocation-for-2024-25/)
3. **Opening of HOS 2024 Applications**: On September 24, the HA announced that applications for the Sale of HOS Flats 2024 would open for three weeks, starting from 8 am on October 3 until 7 pm on October 23. Eligible applicants could submit their applications online.
Source: [info.gov.hk](https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202409/24/P2024092400530.htm)
4. **Public Housing Production Estimates**: As of the end of September 2023, the estimated total public housing production of the HA and the Hong Kong Housing Society (HS) for the five-year period from 2024-25 to 2028-29 was about 141,800 units, which included approximately 92,000 PRH/GSH units and about 49,800 other Subsidised Sale Flats (SSFs).
Source: [Long Term Housing Strategy Annual Progress Report 2023](https://www.hb.gov.hk/eng/policy/housing/policy/lths/LTHS_Annual_Progress_Report_2023.pdf)
Please note that since your original request was for press releases from August 2024 to April 2023, I provided information from the earliest available date within that range, starting from June 2024 as found in the sources, because there were no press releases cited from August 2024 to April 2024.
Summarize the press releases of the Hong Kong Housing Authority in 2024.
Exclude press releases earlier than August 2024.
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