Sha Kok 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 ...
in
Sha Tin Wai
Sha Tin Wai () is an area in Sha Tin District, New Territories, Hong Kong, named after Sha Tin Wai Village ().
Name
The name of the Sha Tin area allegedly comes from the fact that British Hong Kong, British colonial officials mistook the name o ...
,
Sha Tin
Sha Tin, also spelt Shatin, is a neighbourhood along Shing Mun River in the eastern New Territories, Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the Sha Tin District. Sha Tin is one of the neighbourhoods of the Sha Tin New Town project.
The new ...
,
New Territories
The New Territories (N.T., Traditional Chinese characters, Chinese: ) is one of the three areas of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of H ...
, Hong Kong near
Pok Hong Estate,
Jat Min Chuen and
Sha Tin Wai station
Sha Tin Wai () is a station on the in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. The name "Sha Tin Wai" comes from the village called Sha Tin Wai, which is located to the northeast of the station. It was provisionally called "Sha Kok Street" before the Ma On Shan li ...
. The estate consists of seven residential blocks completed between 1980 and 1982. The blocks in the estate are named after birds.
Yue Shing 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 in Sha Tin, near Sha Kok Estate and Jat Min Chuen. It consists of four residential blocks built in 1980.
Houses
Sha Kok Estate
Yue Shing Court
Demographics
According to the
2016 by-census, Sha Kok Estate had a population of 14,522. The median age was 52.9 and the majority of residents (97.9 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.4 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$18,000.
Politics
Sha Kok Estate and Yue Shing Court are located in
Sha Kok constituency of the
Sha Tin District Council
The Sha Tin District Council is the district council of Hong Kong, district council for the Sha Tin District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Sha Tin District Council currently consists of 42 members, of which the district is d ...
. It was formerly represented by Billy Chan Shiu-yeung, who was elected in the
2019 elections
The following elections were scheduled to occur in 2019. The International Foundation for Electoral Systems has a calendar of upcoming elections around the world, and the National Democratic Institute also maintains a calendar of elections in cou ...
until July 2021.
See also
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Public housing estates in Sha Tin
The following is a list of public housing estates in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), Sandwich Class Housing Scheme (SCHS), Flat-for-Sale Scheme (FFSS), and Tenants Purc ...
References
{{Public housing estates in Hong Kong, state=expanded
Residential buildings completed in 1980
Residential buildings completed in 1981
Residential buildings completed in 1982
Sha Tin District
Public housing estates in Hong Kong
1980 establishments in Hong Kong