Public housing in Hong Kong
Public housing in Hong Kong is a set of mass housing programmes through which the Government of Hong Kong provides affordable housing for lower-income residents. It is a major component of housing in Hong Kong, with nearly half of the population now residing in some form of public housing. The public housing policy dates to 1954, after a fire in Shek Kip Mei destroyed thousands of shanty homes and prompted the government to begin constructing homes for the poor.
Kin Ming Estate, completed in 2003 in Tseung Kwan O, consists of 10 housing blocks of New Harmony I design, housing about 22,000 people.
Mei Ho House of Shek Kip Mei Estate during the 1956 riots
Lower Ngau Tau Kok (II) Estate, a rental public housing estate built in 1969
Siu Hong Court, an early Home Ownership Scheme housing estate built in 1982
Shek Kip Mei, originally known as Shek Kap 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.
Shek Kip Mei in 2009
The 1953 Shek Kip Mei fire
Shek Kip Mei Estate (foreground) in 2006. The area on the left has since been redeveloped to new Shek Kip Mei Estate in 2012
new Shek Kip Mei Estate in 2012
