Lok Fu Estate () is a

public housing estate Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, d ...

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 ...

Wong Tai Sin District Wong Tai Sin District is one of the 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 Tong to its southeast, Ko ...

, Kowloon, Hong Kong, near

Lok Fu station Lok Fu () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR The Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is a major public transport network serving :Hong Kong. Operated by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), it consists of heavy rail, light rail, and feeder bu ...

on the

MTR The Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is a major public transport network serving :Hong Kong. Operated by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), it consists of heavy rail, light rail, and feeder bus service centred on a 10-line rapid transit networ ...

. Hong Keung Court () is a

Home Ownership Scheme The Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) is a subsidised-sale 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 with two aims – to encourage be ...

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

History

Chinese government-owned housing block (12108005643)

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 To ...

() 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 Kowl ...

, which is now within the

Tsui Ping Estate Tsui Ping Estate () is a public housing estate in Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is divided into Tsui Ping (South) Estate () and Tsui Ping (North) Estate (). After redevelopment, the estate has a total of 19 blocks built in the 1980s and 1 ...

. 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 Wang Tau Hom Estate () is a public housing estate in Wang Tau Hom, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon, Hong Kong, along Lung Cheung Road and next to Lok Fu. The estate was originally built in 1962 with a total of 25 blocks, but it was redeveloped between 19 ...

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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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