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Kin Ming Estate () is a
public housing estate Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, def ...
in
Tiu Keng Leng Tiu Keng Leng (), formerly Rennie's Mill, is an area of Hong Kong in the Sai Kung District adjacent to Tseung Kwan O (Junk Bay). The area used to be a refugee village housing former Kuomintang officials and followers who escaped to Hong Kong f ...
,
Tseung Kwan O Tseung Kwan O New Town is one of the nine new towns in Hong Kong, built mainly on reclaimed land in the northern half of Junk Bay (known as Tseung Kwan O in Chinese/Cantonese language) in southeastern New Territories, after which it is named. ...
,
New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...
, Hong Kong, near MTR
Tiu Keng Leng station Tiu Keng Leng station is an MTR station located in Tiu Keng Leng. The station features cross-platform interchange between the and the , and serves as the eastern terminus of the Kwun Tong line. It is between and stations on the Tseung Kwan ...
. It is the eighth public housing estate in Tseung Kwan O and consists of ten housing blocks completed in 2003.


Background

Kin Ming Estate was formerly the site of Tiu Keng Leng
Cottage A cottage, during Feudalism in England, England's feudal period, was the holding by a cottager (known as a Cotter (farmer), cotter or ''bordar'') of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager ...
Area, an area settled by Kuomintang Army in Hong Kong after
Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, continuing intermittently since 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949 with a Communist victory on m ...
ended in 1949. After the area was demolished in 1997, a massive clearance,
reclamation Reclaim, reclaimed, reclaimer, reclaiming or reclamation means "to get something back". It may refer to: * Land reclamation, creating new land from oceans, riverbeds, or lake beds * Dedesertification, reversing of the land degradation in arid ...
and
redevelopment Redevelopment is any new construction on a site that has pre-existing uses. It represents a process of land development uses to revitalize the physical, economic and social fabric of urban space. Description Variations on redevelopment include: ...
programme was carried out. The Tiu Keng Leng slope was flattened into two huge platforms to construct Kin Ming Estate and Choi Ming Court on the reclaimed land afterwards. Kin Ming Estate was originally a HOS court called Kin Ming Court (), but it was changed to rental housing finally and renamed to the current name.


Houses


Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Kin Ming Estate had a population of 19,889. The median age was 42.8 and the majority of residents (96.7 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.9 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$21,250.


Politics

For the 2019 District Council election, the estate fell within two constituencies. Most of the estate falls within the Kin Ming constituency, which was represented by Leung Li until May 2021, while the remainder falls within the Choi Kin constituency, which is represented by Chan Wai-lit.


See also

* Public housing estates in Tseung Kwan O


References

{{Public housing estates in Hong Kong, state=expanded Public housing estates in Hong Kong Residential buildings completed in 2003 Tiu Keng Leng Tseung Kwan O