Hung Hom Estate
{{short description|Public housing estate in Hung Hom, Hong Kong}}
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| location = 9 Dyer Avenue, Hung Hom
Kowloon, Hong Kong (Phase 1)
28 Tai Wan Road, Hung Hom
Kowloon, Hong Kong (Phase 2)
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| status = Completed
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| population date = 2016
| population = 6,623{{Cite web|title=Major Housing Estates|url=https://www.bycensus2016.gov.hk/en/bc-dp-major-hosing-estates.html|website=2016 Population By-census|publisher=Census and Statistics Department|access-date=6 July 2021}}
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{{Start date and age|2011}} (Phase 2)
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Hung Hom Estate ({{zh|t=紅磡邨}}) is a public housing estate in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The estate is built on a hill along Dyer Avenue and next to Whampoa Estate, Whampoa Garden and MTR Whampoa station.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtr.com.hk/archive/ch/services/maps/wha.pdf|title=Whampoa Station street map|publisher=MTR Corporation|access-date=6 July 2021}} It now consists of five residential buildings completed in two stages in 1999 and 2011 respectively.
Background
The estate, informally called Tai Wan Shan Resettlement Estate ({{zh|t=大環山徙置區|labels=no}}) or Tai Wan Shan Estate ({{zh|t=大環山邨|labels=no}}), was a resettlement estate built in Tai Wan Shan, a hill in Hung Hom area. It had four 7-storey blocks completed in 1956. All four blocks were demolished for redevelopment in 1996 and 2000. Completed in 1999, redevelopment phase 1 project consists of two residential buildings built in the former site of Block 3 and 4.{{Cite news|url=http://www.takungpao.com.hk/news/08/07/10/HY-930735.htm|title=再談紅磡邨 (Chinese)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719004352/http://www.takungpao.com.hk/news/08/07/10/HY-930735.htm|archive-date=19 July 2011|url-status=dead|newspaper=Ta Kung Pao|date=10 July 2008|access-date=6 July 2021}} Redevelopment phase 2, finished in 2011, consists of three more 40-storey buildings on the former site of Block 1 and Block 3.{{Cite news|url=http://www.takungpao.com/news/08/02/25/MW-868436.htm|title=紅磡邨地皮興建「公屋王」 (Chinese)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029071336/http://www.takungpao.com/news/08/02/25/MW-868436.htm|archive-date=29 October 2009|url-status=dead|newspaper=Ta Kung Pao|date=25 February 2008|access-date=6 July 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr98-99/english/fc/pwsc/papers/pw200160.htm|title=Site formation for redevelopment of Hung Hom Estate phase 2|publisher=Lesiglative Council of Hong Kong|access-date=6 July 2021}}
Houses
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| Hung Fai House | {{lang|yue-HK|紅暉樓}} | Harmony 3 | rowspan="2" | 1999 |
| Hung Sing House | {{lang|yue-HK|紅昇樓}} | Small Household Block | |
| Hung Yat House | {{lang|yue-HK|紅日樓}} | rowspan="3" | Non-standard Block | rowspan="3" | 2011 |
| Hung Yan House | {{lang|yue-HK|紅昕樓}} | ||
| Hung Yiu House | {{lang|yue-HK|紅曜樓}} |
Demographics
According to the 2016 by-census, Hung Hom Estate had a population of 6,623. The median age was 52.6 and the majority of residents (97.5 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$20,000.
Politics
Hung Hom Estate is located in Ka Wai constituency of the Kowloon City District Council.{{Cite web|title=Recommended District Council Constituency Areas (Kowloon City District)|url=https://www.eac.hk/pdf/distco/2019dc/final/en/G_descriptions(Eng).pdf|work=Electoral Affairs Commission|access-date=6 July 2021}} It is currently represented by Chau Hei-man, who was elected in the 2019 elections.{{Cite web|url=https://www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/kc/english/members/info/dc_member_list_detail.php?member_id=2317|title=Kowloon City District Council - Kowloon City DC Members|work=District Council|access-date=6 July 2021}}
See also
{{commons category|Hung Hom Estate}}
References
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{{Public housing estates in Hong Kong|state=expanded}}
category:Public housing estates in Hong Kong
category:Residential buildings completed in 1956