Tung Tau Estate is a public housing estate

Public housing in Hong Kong

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 and Tenants Purchase Scheme

Tenants Purchase Scheme

Tenants Purchase Scheme is a scheme which allows tenants in public housing estates under Hong Kong Housing Authority to purchase their flats...

 estate at the south of Wong Tai Sin. It is divided into Tung Tau (I) Estate and Tung Tau (II) Estate . Tung Tau (I) Estate has only one resettlement block, Block 22, built in 1965. Tung Tau (II) Estate has other 20 blocks built after its redevelopment

Redevelopment

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 in the 1980s and the 1990s.

Although the estate is near Kowloon City

Kowloon City

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, it belongs to Wong Tai Sin District

Wong Tai Sin District

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 rather than Kowloon City District

Kowloon City District

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 because it is located at the northeast of Tung Tsing Road , the boundary

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 between two districts.

Background

Tung Tau Estate was a resettlement

Resettlement

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 estate which had totally 23 blocks (21 Mark II and 2 Mark IV) built in the 1960s. All 21 Mark II blocks were demolished to redevelop the 20 new blocks in the 1980s and the 1990s. In 2002, some of the flats in the estate (except Block 22) were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 5. Block 23 was demolished in 2003. The site is under construction and two blocks will be built in 2011 and 2012. Now only Block 22 is retained, but it is scheduled to be demolished in 2012.

Houses

Name	Type	Completion
Block 22	Mark IV	1967
Hong Tung House	Old Slab Old Slab Old Slab is a design of residential block of Hong Kong public housing estate. The building of this type consists of one or more elongated rectangular blocks, joining end by end....	1981
Yue Tung House	Single H	1982
Yiu Tung House		1985
Fu Tung House	Double H
Tai Tung House
Wong Tung House	Linear 3	1987
Hing Tung House		1992
Cheung Tung House
On Tung House
Choi Tung House	Linear 1
Yan Tung House		1988
Yat Tung House
Ying Tung House
Shing Tung House
Mau Tung House
Wai Tung House		1990
Wing Tung House
Pak Tung House
Chun Tung House	Trident 4	1991
Kwai Tung House