Along with my wife and 1-year-old, I live in Telford Garden, a large housing complex adjacent to the Kowloon Bay MTR station. Ever since moving in about a year ago, there have been problems such as the toilet water supply repeatedly being shut off. Lately things have gotten worse, to the point where I want to find out if I have any legal right to withhold rent or do anything else about it.
We recently took a trip to visit family abroad, and shortly after leaving we received news that the apartment had been flooded by toilet water. I don't know exactly how bad it was, because the landlord had some people come in and get rid of most of the water, and refuses to tell us (or doesn't understand the question) exactly how much water there was before the cleaning.
We've returned home, and now there is extremely loud jackhammering or something going on on the roof, so loud that the apartment feels uninhabitable while it is going on. Building management (not the landlord) tells me this will be going on for 3 weeks.
This is not the first time we have dealt with prolonged, extremely loud jackhammering. I don't want to accept it any more. Since I'm told it will continue for most of April, I don't want to pay my April rent. Is there a way I can complain to the government or something, to make the legal case for this? I plan to move as soon as possible, but these people don't give a crap about that. Easy come, easy go, as far as they are concerned. I want there to be consequences.