The following shows an overview of public housing estates, including those of the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), and Tenant Purchase Scheme (TPS), in

Lam Tin Lam Tin is an area in the Kwun Tong District in southeastern New Kowloon, Hong Kong. Lam Tin is primarily a residential area but also hosts a major transport interchange and several shopping attractions. Lam Tin was once a large field in the ...

Kwun Tong District Kwun Tong is one of the districts of Hong Kong, 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in Kowloon, and is the easternmost and southernmost district in Kowloon. It had a population of 666,500 in 2023. The district has the second highest pop ...

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History

Lam Tin is the hill area at the southeast of

. There was a resettlement estate in the area called the Lam Tin Resettlement Estate () in the 1960s. The resettlement had in total 23 blocks. Block 15 was also the 500th public estate building constructed by the Works Bureau. All blocks in the estate were demolished as part of the Lam Tin Estate Redevelopment Project () between the 1980s and 2000s, which they were replaced by new blocks of Kai Tin Estate (), Ping Tin Estate (), On Tin Estate () and the new Lam Tin Estate ().

Overview

Hing Tin Estate

Hing Tin Estate () is a mixed public and TPS estate at the north of Lam Tin, near the Kwun Tong side exit of

Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Tseung Kwan O Tunnel () is a 900-metre tunnel beneath Ma Yau Tong in Hong Kong. The tunnel was opened on 9 November 1990. Part of Route 7, it links Sau Mau Ping, Kwun Tong, Kowloon and the Tseung Kwan O New Town, Sai Kung District, the New Terr ...

. It consists of 3 blocks completed in 1987. 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 has rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord. Although a tenant does hold rights to real property, a lea ...

during Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 4 in 2001.

Houses

Hong Nga Court

Hong Nga Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Tak Tin Estate. It has 3 blocks built in 1993.

Houses

Hong Pak Court

Hong Pak Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Kwong Tin Estate. It has 7 blocks built in 1993.

Houses

Hong Shui Court

Hong Shui Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Kwong Tin Estate. It has 1 block built in 1999.

House

Hong Tin Court

Hong Tin Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Kai Tin Estate and MTR

Lam Tin station Lam Tin () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR built as a part of the extension to . The station is linked to the nearby hillside community of Lam Tin by a series of escalators. History In the 1980s, the Eastern Harbour Crossing (EHC or EHT) ...

. It has 3 blocks built in 1982, and it is the oldest HOS court in Lam Tin.

Houses

Hong Wah Court

Hong Wah Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Hing Tin Estate. It has 3 blocks built in 1987.

Houses

Hong Yat Court

Hong Yat Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Kai Tin Estate, Lam Tin Estate and

MTR The Mass Transit Railway system, known locally by the initialism MTR, is a rapid transit system in Hong Kong and the territory's principal mode of Rail transport in Hong Kong, railway transportation. Operated by the MTR Corporation (MTRCL), ...

. It belonged to Phase 5 of the Lam Tin Redevelopment Project. It has 5 blocks built in 2001.

Houses

Hong Ying Court

Hong Ying Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Tak Tin Estate. It has 1 block built in 1991.

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Kai Tin Estate

Kai Tin Estate () formed part of the

Lam Tin Estate The following shows an overview of public housing estates, including those of the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), and Tenant Purchase Scheme (TPS), in Lam Tin of Kwun Tong District, Kowloon, Hong Kong ...

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 ...

project. It consists of 3 blocks and a shopping centre built in 1997.Kai Tin Shopping Centre Extension
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Kwong Tin Estate

Kwong Tin Estate () is located between Lam Tin and

Yau Tong Yau Tong () is an area of Hong Kong, located in the southeastern end of Kowloon, between Lei Yue Mun and Lam Tin, at the east shore of Victoria Harbour, west of Tseung Kwan O. Administratively, it is part of Kwun Tong District, the most densely ...

.Kwun Tong District
It has four blocks built in 1992 and 1993.

Houses

Lei On Court

Lei On Court () is a HOS estate in

Lei Yue Mun Road Lei Yue Mun Road () is a major road in Lam Tin, Hong Kong. It runs from the junction with Tsui Ping Road and Kwun Tong Road near MTR Kwun Tong station to the roundabout with Ko Chiu Road near Lei Yue Mun Estate in Yau Tong. The westernmost sec ...

Kwun Tong Kwun Tong is an area in the Kwun Tong District of Hong Kong, situated at the eastern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, and its boundary stretches from Lion Rock in the north to Lei Yue Mun in the south, and from the winding paths of Kowloon P ...

, Hong Kong, located near MTR

. Built in 2002, it consists of six Concord-typed blocks, providing a total of 1684 flats. Blocks A, D, E and F are built in conjunction with the carpark building, whereas Block B and C stand separately at the northwest of the Court.

Background

Lei On Court was built at the former site of a

public housing estate Public housing, also known as social housing, refers to Subsidized housing, subsidized or affordable housing provided in buildings that are usually owned and managed by local government, central government, nonprofit organizations or a ...

, Kwun Tong (Lei Yue Mun Road) Estate () (which is different from the current

Lei Yue Mun Estate The following is an overview of Public housing, public housing estates in Yau Tong, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, including Home Ownership Scheme, Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme, Private Sector Participation Sche ...

). Kwun Tong (Lei Yue Mun Road) Estate was built in 1962 and demolished in 1997. It was replaced by the current Lei On Court, an HOS estate.

Houses

On Tin Estate

On Tin Estate () was a part of Lam Tin Estate Redevelopment Project. Built above Kai Tin Shopping Centre Extension, the estate has two block completed in 2005.

Houses

Ping Tin Estate

Ping Tin Estate () was a part of Lam Tin Estate Redevelopment Project. It consists of 8 blocks (including one Ancillary Facilities Block for Housing for Senior Citizen) completed in 1997 and 1998.

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Tak Tin Estate

Tak Tin Estate () is a mixed public/TPS estate in Lam Tin, near Ping Tin Estate and Lam Tin Estate. It consists of 9 blocks completed in 1991 and 2001. In 1999, some of the flats (Tak Hong House and Tak Yan House excluded) were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 2.

Houses

Lam Tin Estate

The current Lam Tin Estate () is smaller than the original one, and it has 4 blocks completed in 2009. Its predecessor was a resettlement estate from the 1960s to 1990s.

Andy Lau Andy Lau Tak-wah ( zh, order=t,j, t=劉德華, j=Lau4 Dak1 Waa4; born Lau Fook-wing; 27 September 1961), is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He was named the "Fourth Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB in the 1 ...

, a Hong Kong famous singer, lived in Block 15 of the estate when he was a child. It was demolished between the 1990s and 2000s and its area is redeveloped to construct Kai Tin Estate, Ping Tin Estate, On Tin Estate, Hong Yat Court and the new Lam Tin Estate. Andy Lau also autographed 'Lam Tin Estate' in

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at the time of the estate completion.Completion of Lam Tin Estate Comprehensive Redevelopment Programme
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References

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