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Wah Ming Estate () is a mixed TPS and
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 ...
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Wo Hop Shek Wo Hop Shek () is an area in the south of Fanling, Hong Kong. It consists of villages and recently developed housing estates. The area is famous for its large public cemetery, Wo Hop Shek Public Cemetery, on the nearby hillside. Every year, du ...
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Fanling Fanling ( zh, t=粉嶺; also spelled Fan Ling or Fan Leng) is a town in the New Territories East of Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the North District. Fanling Town is the main settlement of the Fanling area. The name Fanling i ...
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New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...
, Hong Kong, near Wa Mei Shan and Wo Hing Sports Centre. It consists of seven residential buildings built in 1990. The flats in the estate were sold under
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 in 1999. Yan Shing Court () and Cheong Shing Court () are
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 ...
courts in Wo Hop Shek near Wah Ming Estate, built in 1993 and 2000 respectively. Yung Shing Court ( is a mixed public and HOS court in Wo Hop Shek near Wah Ming Estate. It consists of three residential buildings completed in 2000.


Houses


Wah Ming Estate


Yan Shing Court


Cheong Shing Court


Yung Shing Court


Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Wah Ming Estate had a population of 15,611, Yan Shing Court had a population of 6,955, Cheong Shing Court had a population of 4,107 while Yung Shing Court had a population of 8,005. Altogether the population amounts to 34,678.


Politics

For the 2019 District Council election, the estate fell within two constituencies. Wah Ming Estate is located in the Wah Ming constituency, which was formerly represented by Chan Wai-tat until July 2021, while Yan Shing Court, Cheong Shing Court and Yung Shing Court fall within the Yan Shing constituency, which was formerly represented by Lam Shuk-ching until May 2021.


See also

* Public housing estates in Fanling


References

{{Public housing estates in Hong Kong, state=expanded Residential buildings completed in 1990 Wo Hop Shek Public housing estates in Hong Kong Tenants Purchase Scheme