Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate

Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate (Chinese: 黃大仙下邨) is a public housing estate and Tenants Purchase Scheme estate in Wong Tai Sin,^[1] Kowloon, Hong Kong, along the south of Lung Cheung Road,^[2] near Wong Tai Sin Temple and MTR Wong Tai Sin station.^[3] It is divided into Lower Wong Tai Sin (I) Estate (黃大仙下(一)邨) and Lower Wong Tai Sin (II) Estate (黃大仙下(二)邨). After redevelopment, the estate consists of a total of 24 blocks built between the 1980s and 1990s.

Background

Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate was formerly a resettlement estate, called Wong Tai Sin Resettlement Estate (黃大仙徙置屋邨). It had 29 blocks built between the 1950s and 1960s with a total population of 97,000 at that time.^[4][5][6] In 1973, the estate was renamed as Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate. In 1980, Block 8 was reassigned to Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate and was renamed "Cheung Yan House" (長欣樓).^[7] Between the 1980s and 1990s, all old blocks were demolished to reconstruct new blocks.^[8][9] In 2001, some of the flats in Lower Wong Tai Sin (I) Estate were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 4.^[10]

Houses

Lower Wong Tai Sin (I) Estate

Lower Wong Tai Sin (II) Estate

Others

• Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate

References

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1. ^ Wong Tai Sin District Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ Wong Tai Sin Integrated Family Service Centre
3. ^ Lung Cheung Mall
4. ^ 香港地方 - 徙置區 (Chinese)
5. ^ Public Housing Projects in the 1950s and 1960s
6. ^ Working daughters of Hong Kong: filial piety or power in the family?
7. ^ 香港地方 - 黃大仙政府廉租屋邨 (Chinese)
8. ^ 八十年代公共屋村 (Chinese)
9. ^ 九十年代初公共屋村 (Chinese)
10. ^ Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 4 Archived 2009-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
11. ^ Lower Wong Tai Sin (I) Estate
12. ^ Lower Wong Tai Sin (II) Estate