Model Housing Estate is a public housing estate located at King's Road in Tsat Tsz Mui between Quarry Bay and North Point in Hong Kong, near

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Quarry Bay station Exit C. It is the oldest existing public housing estate in Hong Kong. It comprises 7 residential blocks completed in 1954 and 1979 respectively, offering a total of 667 flats.

Background

Unlike other public housing estate, Model Housing Estate was developed by neither the

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nor the Hong Kong Housing Society. Instead, it was developed by a voluntary organization called "Hong Kong Model Housing Society" (). The estate was developed in two phases. Phase 1 includes Block A, B, C, D, E and F built between 1951 and 1953, Blocks A-E facing King's Road share the same design, and Block F stands at the back of Block A-E, close to the mountain. In Phase 2 (between 1973 and 1979), The whole of Block C, together with part of Blocks A and B (facing King's Road) was torn down and rebuilt into the current 20-stories, "T" shape new Block C (Block C1 on top of the old Block C, and Block C2 on top of what had been part of Blocks A and B.). When Block C was completed in 1979, the manager responsible for flat allocation suddenly went missing. The Hong Kong Housing Authority then took over the whole estate and allocated the flats to Block C tenants.

Houses

Politics

Model Housing Estate is located in Healthy Village constituency of the Eastern District Council. It was formerly represented by James Pui Chi-lap, who was elected in the

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until July 2021.

References

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