The following is an overview of Public housing estates in

Cheung Sha Wan Cheung Sha Wan () is an area between Lai Chi Kok and Sham Shui Po in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is mainly residential to the north and south, with an industrial area in between. Administratively it is part of Sham Shui Po District, which al ...

, Hong Kong, including

Home Ownership Scheme The Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) is a subsidised-sale public housing in Hong Kong, 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 wit ...

(HOS),

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(GFSHOS),

Private Sector Participation Scheme The Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) is a subsidised-sale public housing in Hong Kong, 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 wit ...

(PSPS), and

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 ...

(TPS) estates.

History

Historians suggested there were inhabitants settled in this area during Eastern Han Dynasty ( 25 A.D-220 A.D ), as an Eastern Han tomb was discovered in the year 1955, the Eastern Han tomb now become Lee Cheng Uk Museum () when Lee Cheng Uk Estate () was built.

Overview

Cheung Sha Wan Estate

The original Cheung Sha Wan Estate () opened between 1963 and 1964 as the Cheung Sha Wan Government Low Cost Housing Estate (). It was renamed following the 1973 establishment of the Housing Authority. All thirteen blocks of this estate were demolished in 2001 as part of the Comprehensive Redevelopment Programme, announced 1995. Most displaced residents were moved to the nearby Fortune Estate. A new estate opened in 2013 bearing the same name. It sits just north of the original Cheung Sha Wan Estate site, on the site of the former Cheung Sha Wan Police Married Quarters. It is made up of two public rental blocks and an auxiliary facilities block linked to Un Chau Estate by a walkway spanning Cheung Sha Wan Road. The site of the original Cheung Sha Wan Estate was leased to the Asia Golf Club

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. The golf club has since closed and a new public housing estate is under construction on the site. This new estate is called Lai Tsui Court.

Houses

Fortune Estate

Fortune Estate () is located opposite to

Un Chau Estate Un Chau Estate (), or Un Chau Street Estate () before redevelopment, is a public housing estate on the reclaimed land of Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong, located between and Cheung Sha Wan Road, next to MTR Cheung Sha Wan station. It consists ...

and near

Cheung Sha Wan station Cheung Sha Wan () is an MTR station on the Tsuen Wan line. It is located underneath Cheung Sha Wan Road in Sham Shui Po District Sham Shui Po District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is the second poorest district by income in ...

. Formerly the site of Fortune Street Temporary Housing Area, the estate consists of three residential buildings built in 2001 to settle the residents affected by the redevelopment of Cheung Sha Wan Estate,

Tai Hang Tung Estate Tai Hang Tung Estate () is a Public housing in Hong Kong, public housing estate in Kowloon Tong, Sham Shui Po District, Kowloon, Hong Kong, located near the Tai Hang Sai Estate, Tai Hang Sai and Nam Shan Estates as well as Shek Kip Mei station. ...

and Un Chau Estate.

Houses

Hang Chun Court

Hang Chun Court () is a HOS court in Cheung Sha Wan, next to Fortune Estate. Like Fortune Estate, Hang Chun Court was formerly the site of Fortune Temporary Housing Area. It has two blocks built in 2001.

Houses

Both houses were under lockdown for mandatory covid test on 26 February 2022.

Hoi Lai Estate

Hoi Lai Estate () was built on the

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of south Cheung Sha Wan, near

Lai Chi Kok station Lai Chi Kok () is an MTR station on the . It is located under Cheung Sha Wan Road. It was opened on 17 May 1982. The station's lineage is Vermilion. Although the station is called Lai Chi Kok, it is located in Cheung Sha Wan. Passengers ...

and four

private housing estates Private housing estate is a term used in Hong Kong for private mass housing—a housing estate built by a private Real estate development, developer, as opposed to a Public housing in Hong Kong, public housing estate built by the Hong Kong Hou ...

, namely Aqua Marine, Banyan Garden, Liberté and The Pacifica. The estate consists of 12 residential buildings and a shopping centre completed between 2004 and 2005. It was planned for HOS court, but it was changed to rental housing before it was occupied.

Houses

Hoi Lok Court

Hoi Lok Court () is a Home Ownership Scheme court in Lai Ying Street,

reclaimed area of

Sham Shui Po District Sham Shui Po District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is the second poorest district by income in Hong Kong, with a predominantly working-class population of 405,869 in 2016 and the lowest median household income of all districts. Sham ...

near

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Nam Cheong station and Hoi Ying Estate. It comprises five 40-to-42-storey blocks with totally 2,522 flats. The flats were sold in 2018 at prices from HK$2.17M to HK$4.68M, after the revision from the previous 70% of the market flat prices to 52% announced by

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. The court completed in 2019.

Hoi Tak Court

Hoi Tak Court () is a Home Ownership Scheme court in Fat Tseung Street West, Cheung Sha Wan reclaimed area of Sham Shui Po District, near

Nam Cheong station and

Fu Cheong Estate Fu Cheong Estate () is a public housing estate in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong, built on the reclaimed land of the southwest of Sham Shui Po near MTR Nam Cheong station. The estate was built in 2001, and it was constructed on the former site ...

. It comprises one block with totally 814 flats. It was arranged for sale in 2018 and is expected to complete in late 2020.

Lai Tsui Court

Lei Cheng Uk Estate

Lei Cheng Uk Estate () is a mixed public and TPS estate in

Lei Cheng Uk Lei Cheng Uk () was a group for villages of families of Lei/Lee/Li ( 李) and Cheng ( 鄭). The villages were demolished to build a public housing estate, Lei Cheng Uk Estate. At the beginning of the construction, a Han tomb was found there and n ...

, downhill of Cheung Sha Wan near

So Uk Estate So Uk Estate () is an early public housing estate in So Uk, a hillside area of Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The estate has undergone redevelopment, and new housing blocks are being built in place of the ones demolished. History ...

. It is also adjacent to the

Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum The Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum () is a museum in Hong Kong which houses an ancient Chinese tomb. It is believed to have been built during the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25–220) for a Chinese officer attached to the local garrison. The museum ...

. Since the redevelopment in the 1980s, the estate consists of 10 residential buildings completed in 1984, 1989 and 1990 respectively. In 2002, some of the flats were sold to

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through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 5. The estate is now managed by

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 Soci ...

Po Hei Court

Po Hei Court () is a HOS court in Cheung Sha Wan, next to

and

Lei Cheng Uk Estate Lei Cheng Uk Estate () is a public housing estate and Tenants Purchase Scheme estate in Lei Cheng Uk, downhill from Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong, located near the So Uk Estate. Since the redevelopment in 1980s, the estate consists of 10 r ...

. It consists of 2 blocks built in 1993.

Houses

Po Lai Court

Po Lai Court () is a HOS court in Cheung Sha Wan, next to Po Hei Court. It consists of three blocks built in 1987.

Houses

So Uk Estate

So Uk Estate ( Chinese: 蘇屋邨) is situated in the northern area

So Uk So Uk () is an area in New Kowloon of Hong Kong, located to the north of Cheung Sha Wan. It was originally a village founded and resided by a clan bearing the surname So. The area now includes the area surrounding So Uk Estate, and a major hospi ...

, a downhill in Cheung Sha Wan. The estate was built alongside of

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areas, which was later demolished for the construction of the estate of 16 blocks in 1960. Unlike many public housing estates built afterwards, the

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design of the estates is unique in Hong Kong. The "houses" were named after varieties of flowers. There are 5,316 flats in the estate, with capacity of 15,200. High maintenance cost made the

Hong Kong Housing Authority The Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) is the main provider of public housing in Hong Kong. It was established in April 1973 under the Housing Ordinance and is an government agency, agency of the Government of Hong Kong. In the same year, the R ...

decide to demolish it in 2008 and 2011 in two phases, and residents will be relocated to

Phases 2, 4, and 5 in

Sham Shui Po Sham Shui Po () is an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, situated in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Tai Kok Tsui, east of Cheung Sha Wan and south of Shek Kip Mei (). It is located in and is the namesake of the Sham Shui ...

Un Chau Estate

Un Chau Estate (), or Un Chau Street Estate (), is a redeveloped public estate on

of Cheung Sha Wan located between

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and

Cheung Sha Wan Road Cheung Sha Wan Road () is a main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong going in a south-north direction from Mong Kok in the south to Lai Chi Kok in the north. Description It starts in Mong Kok near Boundary Street and at the northern terminus of N ...

, next to

. It consists of 10 residential buildings completed in 1998, 1999 and 2008, which were developed into 4 phases. Phase 5 is under development on the site of former

Cheung Sha Wan Factory Estate Cheung Sha Wan Factory Estate () was a factory estate in Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong, owned and managed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. It comprised up to six low-storey blocks without lift service, built between 1957 and 1965. Ch ...

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History

Overview

Cheung Sha Wan Estate

Houses

Fortune Estate

Houses

Hang Chun Court

Houses

Hoi Lai Estate

Houses

Hoi Lok Court

Hoi Tak Court

Lai Tsui Court

Lei Cheng Uk Estate

Po Hei Court

Houses

Po Lai Court

Houses

So Uk Estate

Un Chau Estate

See also

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