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Tai Hang Sai Estate () is a

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Shek Kip Mei Shek Kip Mei, is an area in New Kowloon, to the northeast of the Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong. It borders Sham Shui Po and Kowloon Tong. History At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Shek Kip Mei was 72. A major fire on 25 ...

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, Hong Kong. It is located between

Shek Kip Mei Estate Shek Kip Mei Estate is the first public housing estate in Hong Kong. It is located in Sham Shui Po and is under the management of the Hong Kong Housing Authority. The estate was constructed as a result of a fire in Shek Kip Mei in 1953, to s ...

and Tai Hang Tung Estate, near MTR

Shek Kip Mei station Shek Kip Mei () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR . It is located in Shek Kip Mei. History The station served as a terminus Terminus may refer to: * Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end destination * Terminal train station or term ...

. It consists of 8

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s which were built in 1965 and 1977 respectively. Although it is

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, it was developed by a privately owned company, unlike other

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which are built and managed by either

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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 ...

History

In 1961, the

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Government granted a piece of

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at concessionary

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to the Hong Kong Settlers Housing Corporation Limited (), founded in 1952 by Dr Lee Iu Cheung and others, to build and then manage the present Tai Hang Sai Estate in order to rehouse

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 ...

affected by clearance of the then Tai Hang Sai Resettlement Area. In 1965, the Corporation constructed seven buildings with a total of 1603 flats and let them out at rents below market levels to tenants on low

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s. This was the only instance in Hong Kong that Government granted land to a private company to build rental housing. In 1977, just after the opening of Shek Kip Mei station, the eighth building, Man Tai House, was completed.

Demographics

According to the 2016 census, Tai Hang Sai Estate had a population of 2,639. The median age was 49.4 and the majority of residents (94.8 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.5 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$28,800.

Politics

Tai Hang Sai Estate is located in Nam Shan, Tai Hang Tung & Tai Hang Sai constituency of the

Sham Shui Po District Council The Sham Shui Po District Council is the district council for the Sham Shui Po District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Sham Shui Po District Council currently consists of 25 members, of which the district is divided into 25 c ...

. It was formerly represented by Tam Kwok-kiu, who was elected in the 2019 elections until July 2021.

References

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