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Harmony Garden () is a
Home Ownership Scheme The Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) is a subsidised-sale public housing in Hong Kong, public housing programme managed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. It was instituted in the late 1970s as part of the government policy for public housing wit ...
and Private Sector Participation Scheme court built on the
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in
Siu Sai Wan Siu Sai Wan () is a residential area in the northeastern part of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is located in the eastern part of Chai Wan, and is administratively under the Eastern District, Hong Kong, Eastern District. The population wa ...
,
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, Hong Kong near
Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground () is a multi-purpose stadium in Siu Sai Wan, Hong Kong. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It occupies about 43,000 square metres and its construction cost over HK $230 million. Opened in December 1996 ...
, Siu Sai Wan Swimming Pool and
Island Resort A resort island (French ''Île-hôtel''; "hotel island") is a hotel complex located on an island; in many cases one luxury hotel may own the entire island. More broadly, resort island can be defined as any island or an archipelago that contains ...
. It was jointly developed by the
Hong Kong Housing Authority The Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) is the main provider of public housing in Hong Kong. It was established in April 1973 under the Housing Ordinance and is an government agency, agency of the Government of Hong Kong. In the same year, the R ...
and
Chevalier Group Chevalier International Holdings Ltd. () (), is a property developer Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the pur ...
and has a total of eight residential blocks built in 1997.


Houses


Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Harmony Garden had a population of 7,037. The median age was 46.6 and the majority of residents (95.8 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 3.2 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$38,800.


Politics

Harmony Garden is located in Yan Lam constituency of the
Eastern District Council The Eastern District Council is the district council for the Eastern District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Eastern District Council currently consists of 35 members, of which the district is divided into three constituenc ...
. It was formerly represented by Alice Ishigami Lee Fung-king, who was elected in the
2019 elections The following elections were scheduled to occur in 2019. The International Foundation for Electoral Systems has a calendar of upcoming elections around the world, and the National Democratic Institute also maintains a calendar of elections in cou ...
until July 2021.


Education

Harmony Garden is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 16. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and two government schools: Shau Kei Wan Government Primary School and Aldrich Bay Government Primary School.


See also

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Public housing estates in Chai Wan and Siu Sai Wan The following is a list of Public housing, public housing estates in Chai Wan and Siu Sai Wan, Hong Kong, including Home Ownership Scheme, Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme, Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS ...


References

{{Public housing estates in Hong Kong, state=expanded Home Ownership Scheme Private Sector Participation Scheme Siu Sai Wan Residential buildings completed in 1997