Wah Lai 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 Lai Chi Kok,

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. It consists of a total of two residential blocks completed in 2001. Lai Yan Court () is a

Home Ownership Scheme The Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) is a subsidised-sale 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 with two aims – to encourage b ...

housing court in Lai Chi Kok near Wah Lai Estate and within walking distance to

Mei Foo station Mei Foo () is a Hong Kong MTR station located in Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok, New Kowloon. It is the only interchange station between the and the , situated between and stations on the Tsuen Wan line and and stations on the Tuen Ma ...

. Together with Wah Lai Estate and

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, it was formerly the site of Lai Chi Kok Amusement Park. It has three residential blocks completed in 2001.

Background

Although it administratively belongs to

Kwai Tsing District Kwai Tsing is one of the districts of Hong Kong, 18 districts of Hong Kong. It consists of two parts - Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi, Tsing Yi Island. Kwai Tsing is part of the New Territories. It had a population of 520,572 in 2016. The district h ...

, it is very near Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok rather than other parts in Kwai Chung. Sham Shui Po District Council requested the government to include the estate into its district, but there are still no changes in the boundary related to the estate. However, the government decided to include the entire Nob Hill, a

private housing estate A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Popular throughout the United States a ...

next to Wah Lai Estate, into Sham Shui Po District in 2007.

Houses

Wah Lai Estate

Lai Yan Court

Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Wah Lai Estate had a population of 5,711 while Lai Yan Court had a population of 5,562. Altogether the population amounts to 11,273.

Politics

Wah Lai Estate and Lai Yan Court are located in Lai Wah constituency of the

Kwai Tsing District Council The Kwai Tsing District Council () is the district council for the Kwai Tsing District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. It currently consists of 32 members of which 31 are directly elected from the 31 constituencies of the district, ...

. It was formerly represented by Steve Cheung Kwan-kiu, who was elected in the

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until July 2021.

References

{{Public housing estates in Hong Kong, state=expanded Residential buildings completed in 2001 Lai Chi Kok Public housing estates in Hong Kong