Lok Fu 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 ...

Lok Fu Lok Fu () is a place in Wong Tai Sin District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is located to the east of Kowloon Tsai, the west of Wong Tai Sin and the north of Kowloon City. History The only village in this area in the 19th century was Ta Ku Ling o ...

Wong Tai Sin District Wong Tai Sin District is one of the districts of Hong Kong, 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is the only landlocked district in Hong Kong. It is located in Kowloon, and is the northernmost district in Kowloon. It borders the districts of Kwun Ton ...

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, near

Lok Fu station Lok Fu () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR . It became operational on 1 October 1979 as part of the Kwun Tong line. Colour scheme The station's colour scheme is green with red stripes. History Contract 201, consisting of the construction of ...

on the

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), ...

. Hong Keung Court () is a

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 ...

court near Lok Tung House, Lok Fu Estate. It has one block built in 1999.

History

Lok Fu Estate was formerly the Lo Fu Ngam

Resettlement Area Resettlement Areas, or Resettlement Estates ( zh, 徙置區) are an early form of public housing in Hong Kong. They were built between 1954 and 1975. The designs used are Mark I to Mark VII. Most are found in the new towns of Hong Kong (Kwun Ton ...

() and has a total of 23 blocks, 12 Mark I type and 11 Mark II type, built in 1957. As local residents found the name Lo Fu Ngam (Tiger Hill) inauspicious, the settlement was later renamed to Lok Fu (happy and prosperous). A former shrine at the site was moved to a new location in

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 ...

, which is now within the Tsui Ping Estate. In 1973, the area was renamed the Lok Fu Estate. It started rehabilitation and redevelopment in the 1980s. In 1991, the six blocks in the nearby Wang Tau Hom Estate were allocated to the Lok Fu Estate.橫頭磡邨
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Houses

Lok Fu Estate

Hong Keung Court

Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Lok Fu Estate had a population of 9,952. The median age was 50.8 and the majority of residents (96.5 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household comprised 2.7 persons. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$16,450.

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