Lei Cheng Uk Estate-Yan Oi Hse and Chung Hau House

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Lei Cheng Uk Estate () is 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 ...

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 ...

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 from

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 ...

Kowloon Kowloon () is one of the areas of Hong Kong, three areas of Hong Kong, along with Hong Kong Island and the New Territories. It is an urban area comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It has a population of 2,019,533 and a populat ...

, Hong Kong, located near the

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 ...

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

History

In 1955, while levelling a hill to construct the Lei Cheng Uk Resettlement Area, workers discovered an ancient brick tomb dating to the

Eastern Han dynasty The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...

(25220CE). A total of 58 pottery and bronze objects were found inside the tomb. The site is now 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 ...

.Hong Kong – Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb
In 1956, during

Double Ten Day The National Day of the Republic of China, also referred to as Double Ten Day or Double Tenth Day, is a Public holidays in Taiwan, public holiday on 10 October, now held annually as national day in the Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC, commonly ...

celebrations, a government officer ordered that a Republic of China flag be removed from the Lei Cheng Uk estate. This escalated into the Hong Kong 1956 riots, where

Pro-ROC camp The pro-Republic of China camp (), or the pro-Kuomintang camp (), is a political alignment in Hong Kong. It generally pledges allegiance to the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan and the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party). The pro-ROC cam ...

and pro-Communists clashed.

Houses

Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Lei Cheng Uk Estate had a population of 12,043. The median age was 51.8 and the majority of residents (96 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household comprised 2.6 persons. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$17,090.

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Historical photographs of Lei Cheng Uk Resettlement Estate
{{Sham Shui Po District Residential buildings completed in 1984 Residential buildings completed in 1989 Residential buildings completed in 1990 Cheung Sha Wan Public housing estates in Hong Kong Tenants Purchase Scheme

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