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Tin Tsz 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 ...
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Tin Shui Wai Tin Shui Wai New Town is a new towns in Hong Kong, satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a ' () fish pond area, it was developed in 1980s in Hong Kong, the 1980s as the second New towns of Hong Kong, new tow ...
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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
Light Rail Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit that uses rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from ...
Tin Tsz stop Tin Tsz () is an MTR Light Rail stop. It is located at ground level near the Tin Shing Road, near Tin Tsz Estate, in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District Yuen Long District (Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation, formerly Un Long) is one ...
. It consists of four residential buildings completed in 1997 and contains 3,400 rental flats of sizes ranging from 12.8 to 43.3m2. Tin Lai 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 Tin Shui Wai, near Tin Tsz Estate. It has only one Harmony-typed block built in 1997.


Houses


Tin Tsz Estate


Tin Lai Court


Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Tin Tsz Estate had a population of 9,026. The median age was 43.4 and the majority of residents (96 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.8 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$22,000.


Politics

Tin Tsz Estate and Tin Lai Court are located in Tsz Yau constituency of the
Yuen Long District Council The Yuen Long District Council () is the district council of Hong Kong, district council for the Yuen Long District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Yuen Long District currently consists of 46 members, of which the district is d ...
. It is currently represented by May Chan Mei-lin, 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 ...
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See also

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Public housing estates in Tin Shui Wai This is a list of public housing estates (including Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) and Tenants' Purchase Scheme (TPS) in Tin Shui Wai New Town, Hong Kong. Overview Tin Chak Estate Tin Chak Esta ...


References

{{Public housing estates in Hong Kong, state=expanded Residential buildings completed in 1997 Tin Shui Wai Public housing estates in Hong Kong