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Mei Ho House (Chinese: 美荷樓), formerly part of Shek Kip Mei Estate, Hong Kong, is the last remaining example of a "Mark I" building in a single-block configuration.. While the other buildings of the estate dating from the 1950s have been demolished, being replaced by new ones, Mei Ho House was chosen to be preserved and was reopened in 2013 as a youth hostel and heritage mus
Mei Ho House, Shek Kip Mei Estate near Tai Po Road. Shek Kip Mei Estate (Chinese: 石硤尾邨) is the first public housing estate in Hong Kong. [12] The estate was constructed as a result of a fire in Shek Kip Mei in 1953, to settle the families of inhabitants in the squats over the hill who lost their homes in one night.
In 1973, it was organized into Hong Kong Housing Authority. Then, resettlement areas began to be referred as 'estates'. It was classified as 'Category B Public Housing Estates'. [1] Newer housing projects are called 'Category A Public Housing Estates'. Today, only Mei Ho House remains standing as a Mark I block.
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Yau Mei Court belongs to Yau Tong Estate Redevelopment Phase 3 [4] and was completed in 2002. [5] In 2002, Block A (Ching Mei House) was converted to public rental housing after the Hong Kong Housing Authority decided to suspend HOS sales to the public. [6] In 2005, seven court blocks were also converted to government quarters. [7] [8]
In June 1977, the first intake of 2146 people [3] were allocated housing in Phase I of the estate (Ching Wai House, Ching Yung House, and Ching Kwai House). They were residents from overcrowded estates, or were relocated from redevelopment of older (Mk I and Mk II blocks) estates [ 3 ] in Kowloon Bay , and Hong Kong Island .
Map of Mei Foo Sun Chuen. Mei Foo Sun Chuen or simply Mei Foo is a large private housing estate in Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.Mei Foo Sun Chuen was the first large scale private housing estate in Hong Kong and at the time of completion, the 99-tower complex was considered the largest private housing development in the world, [1] accommodating some 70,000 – 80,000 people in 13,500 ...