The following is a list of

public housing estates Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authorities, government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the d ...

Wong Tai Sin Wong Tai Sin or Huang Daxian () is a Chinese Taoist Deity popular in Jinhua, Zhejiang, and Hong Kong with the power of healing. The name, meaning the "Great Immortal Wong (Huang)", is the divine form of Huang Chuping or Wong Cho Ping (; c. 328 ...

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 ...

including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), Sandwich Class Housing Scheme (SCHS), Flat-for-Sale Scheme (FFSS), and Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) estates.

History

Lok Fu, Wong Tai Sin, Wang Tau Hom, and Tung Tau were home to a large number of public housing blocks built in the 1950s and 1960s to provide accommodation to Hong Kong's burgeoning population of refugee migrants. This type of housing, built in haste with limited resources, was rudimentary. The flats were no more than single rooms and families on each floor shared toilet and bathing facilities. In the 1980s, there was a push to redevelop the first generation of estates so that each family was housed in a self-contained flat. By the late 1980s, much of the area had been rebuilt.

Overview

Chuk Yuen Estate

Chuk Yuen 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 Wong Tai Sin and underneath

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. It is divided into Chuk Yuen (North) Estate () and Chuk Yuen (South) Estate (). The two estates has 8 blocks respectively, and all the blocks were built in the 1980s. In 1999, some of the flats were sold to

tenants A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant holds rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord. Although a tenant does hold rights to real property, a l ...

through

Tenants Purchase Scheme Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) is a scheme which allows tenants in public housing estates under the Hong Kong Housing Authority to purchase their flats. The price is set to be much lower than the market prices of private flats and Home Ownersh ...

Phase 2. File:ChukYuenNorthEstate.JPG, Chuk Yuen North Estate File:ChukYuenSouthEstate.JPG, Chuk Yuen South Estate

Kai Tak Garden

Kai Tak Garden () is a

Flat-for-Sale Scheme Flat-for-Sale Scheme is a housing development scheme by Hong Kong Housing Society in 1980s. The flats under the scheme are for sale at a concessionary price. It is similar to Home Ownership Scheme by Hong Kong Housing Authority. The first estate ...

court in Wong Tai Sin, formerly the site of Kai Tak Estate (). It has 5 blocks developed by the

Hong Kong Housing Society The Hong Kong Housing Society or Housing Society for short, is the second largest public housing provider in Hong Kong (the first being the Hong Kong Housing Authority). The Society housed around 130,000 residents as of 2020. The Housing Societ ...

and built in 1998 (Block 1 to 3) and 2003 (Block 4 and 5) respectively.

Mei Tung Estate

Mei Tung Estate () is a

at the south of Wong Tai Sin. It consists of 2

Old Slab Old Slab () is a design of residential block of Hong Kong public housing estate. The building of this type consists of one or more elongated rectangular blocks, joining end by end. Gallery File:HK Kennedy Town Sai Wan Estate birdeyes 2.JPG, Sai ...

-typed blocks, each building is 8-storey, providing over 600 flats. Although the estate is near

Kowloon City Kowloon City is an neighbourhood, area in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is part of Kowloon City District. Compared with the council area of Kowloon City District, the Kowloon City area is History As early as in the Qin dynasty (221 BCE ...

, it belongs to

Wong Tai Sin District Wong Tai Sin District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is the only landlocked district in Hong Kong. It is located in Kowloon, and is the northernmost district in Kowloon. It borders the districts of Kwun Tong to its southeast, Ko ...

rather than

Kowloon City District Kowloon City District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in the city of Kowloon. It had a population of 381,352 in 2001, and increased to 418,732 in 2016. The district has the third most educated residents while its res ...

because it is located at the north of Tung Tau Tsuen Road (), the

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between two districts. A third block opened in 2010, and a fourth opened in 2014.

Background

In 1971, 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 cleared Tung Wo Village and Chiu Ping New Village in Tung Tau

Squatter Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...

Area. In 1974, one block of the estate, "Block 6", was constructed. The government planned to demolish nearby Sai Tau Village in Kowloon City to construct remaining blocks, but the plan was strongly opposed by the village residents. As a result, the plan was left aside. (Sai Tau Village was finally demolished in 1984 to build the current Carpenter Road Park.) Since no other blocks were built, "Block 6" was renamed as "Mei Tung House" in 1979. In 1981, the government decided to construct one more block on the left side of Mei Tung House. In 1983, the block, "Mei Po House", was completed.

Houses

File:Mei Tung Estate Mei Tung House west.jpg, Mei Tung House File:HK MeiTungEstate.jpg, Mei Po House File:Mei Tung Estate 2012 part1.JPG, Mei Yan House File:Mei Tung Estate 2013 09 part1.JPG, Mei Tak House, under construction

Tin Ma Court

Tin Ma 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 ...

court in Wong Tai Sin, near

Lung Cheung Road Lung Cheung Road () is a major road in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. It forms part of Route 7 linking Kwun Tong Road at Ngau Chi Wan and Ching Cheung Road near Tai Wo Ping. It is a dual 3-lane carriageway running in the east-west direction for its en ...

and

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. It has 5 blocks built in 1986. Tin Ma Court is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 43. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and Wong Tai Sin Government Primary School.

Tin Wang Court

Tin Wang Court () is a Home Ownership Scheme court in Wong Tai Sin, near Tin Ma Court. It has 3 blocks built in 1992.

Tsui Chuk Garden

Tsui Chuk Garden () is a

and

Private Sector Participation 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 be ...

estate in

, adjacent to

. It consists of 14 residential buildings built in 1989 (Phase 1 and 2, Block 1 to 12) and 1991 (Phase 3, Block 13 and 14) respectively. There is a

bus terminus A bus terminus is a designated place where a bus or coach starts or ends its scheduled route. The terminus is the designated place that a timetable is timed from. Termini can be located at bus stations, interchanges, bus garages or bus stops. Te ...

in the estate, which has a KMB bus route to

MTR The Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is a major public transport network serving :Hong Kong. Operated by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), it consists of heavy rail, light rail, and feeder bus service centred on a 10-line rapid transit network ...

Wong Tai Sin station Wong Tai Sin () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR . It is named after the Wong Tai Sin Temple, which is managed by Taoist organisation Sik Sik Yuen. Livery The station's livery is yellow to reflect the character "Wong" in Chinese (), which ...

Tung Tau Estate

Tung Tau Estate () is a

and

estate at the south of Wong Tai Sin. It is divided into Tung Tau (I) Estate () and Tung Tau (II) Estate (). Tung Tau (I) Estate has only one resettlement block, Block 22, built in 1965. Tung Tau (II) Estate has other 20 blocks built after its

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: ...

in the 1980s and 1990s. File:Tung Tau Estate BLK22 east.jpg, Block 22, Tung Tau Estate File:Tung Tau Est-Kwai Tung Hse.JPG, Tung Tau (II) Estate

Tung Wui Estate

Tung Wui Estate (), also known as Tung Tau Estate Phase 9, consists of two residential blocks completed in 2012 providing a total of 1,333 residential units with sizes ranging from 14 to 39 square metres .

Houses

Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate

Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate () is a

and

estate in Wong Tai Sin, along the south of

, near Wong Tai Sin Temple and

. It is divided into Lower Wong Tai Sin (I) Estate () and Lower Wong Tai Sin (II) Estate (). The estate now consists of totally 24 blocks built between the 1980s and 1990s.

Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate

Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate () is a

in Wong Tai Sin, along the north of

, near Wong Tai Sin Temple and

. It consists of 8 blocks built in 2000 and 2009 respectively, and it is now under

. File:HK Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate.jpg, Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate File:Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate Phase 3 200905.JPG, Wing Sin House, Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Public Housing Estates in Wong Tai Sin Wong Tai Sin Wong Tai Sin District Home Ownership Scheme Flat-for-Sale Scheme

History

Overview

Chuk Yuen Estate

Kai Tak Garden

Mei Tung Estate

Background

Houses

Tin Ma Court

Tin Wang Court

Tsui Chuk Garden

Tung Tau Estate

Tung Wui Estate

Houses

Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate

Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate

See also

References