Ko Chiu Road Estate () was 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 Ko Chiu Road, the upper

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Yau Tong Yau Tong () is an area of Hong Kong, located in the southeastern end of Kowloon, between Lei Yue Mun and Lam Tin, at the east shore of Victoria Harbour, west of Tseung Kwan O. Administratively, it is part of Kwun Tong District, the most densely ...

Kwun Tong District Kwun Tong is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in Kowloon, and is the easternmost and southernmost district in Kowloon. It had a population of 648,541 in 2016. The district has the second highest population in Hong Kong, af ...

Kowloon Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. In 1964, the

British Hong Kong Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the Briti ...

Government announced that the estate would be named Yau Tong Bay Government Low Cost Estate () (later Ko Chiu Road Government Low Cost Estate, ). It consisted of 11 blocks, built between 1971 and 1973. In 1973, the estate was renamed as Ko Chiu Road Estate. The estate started redevelopment in the 1990s. The redevelopment plan was divided into 5 phases to construct Ko Yee Estate (Phase 1),

Ko Chun Court The following is an overview of public housing estates in Yau Tong, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), and Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) estates. History O ...

(Phase 2) and Ko Cheung Court (Phase 3).APPENDIX I – INDEX OF PROJECT ARRANGED BY YEAR OF COMMENCEMENT

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* {{coord, 22.29703, 114.24019, display=title Yau Tong Residential buildings completed in 1971 Residential buildings completed in 1972 Residential buildings completed in 1973 1990s disestablishments in Hong Kong Former public housing estates in Hong Kong 1971 establishments in Hong Kong

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