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Lok Fu Estate

{{short description|Housing estate in Kowloon, Hong Kong}}

{{Infobox housing project

| building name = Lok Fu Estate

| image = 275px

| image_caption = Lok Fu Estate in 2010.

| location = 198 Junction Road, Lok Fu
Kowloon, Hong Kong

| coordinates = {{coord|22.3361|114.1868|}}

| status = Completed

| category = Public rental housing

| demolished =

| population date =

| population = 9,700

| blocknumber = 11

| units = 3,700

| area = 12.2–57.7 m2 (131–621 ft2)

| built = {{Start date and age|1957}}, {{Start date and age|1961}} (original), {{Start date and age|1984}} (current)

| construction period =

| constructed =

| construction authority = Hong Kong Housing Authority

| governing body =

| famous residents =

}}

{{Infobox housing project

| building name = Hong Keung Court

| image = Hong Keung Court 2010.jpg

| image_caption = Hong Keung Court in 2010.

| location = 23 Heng Lam Street, Lok Fu
Kowloon, Hong Kong

| coordinates = {{coord|22.3361|114.1868|}}

| status = Completed

| category = Home Ownership Scheme court

| demolished =

| population date =

| population =

| blocknumber = 1

| units = 640

| area = 53–80 m2 (570–860 sq ft2), 39–60 m2 (420–650 ft2)

| built = {{Start date and age|1999}}

| construction period =

| constructed =

| construction authority = Hong Kong Housing Authority

| governing body =

| famous residents =

}}

{{infobox chinese

|order=ts

|t=樂富邨

|s=乐富邨

|l=music abundant estate

|showflag=y

|j=lok6 fu3 cyun1

|y=lohk fu chyūn

|p=Lèfù Cūn

}}

File:Lok Fu Est-Lok Tung Hse.JPG

Lok Fu Estate ({{zh|t=樂富邨}}) is a public housing estate in Lok Fu, Wong Tai Sin District, Kowloon, Hong Kong, near Lok Fu station on the MTR.[https://www.wastereduction.gov.hk/en/materials/workplace/rbrp_participating_estates_WTS.pdf Wong Tai Sin District] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720174956/https://www.wastereduction.gov.hk/en/materials/workplace/rbrp_participating_estates_WTS.pdf |date=2011-07-20 }}

Hong Keung Court ({{zh|t=康強苑|labels=no}}) is a Home Ownership Scheme court near Lok Tung House, Lok Fu Estate. It has one block built in 1999.

History

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Lok Fu Estate was formerly the Lo Fu Ngam Resettlement Area ({{zh|t=老虎區徙置區|labels=no}}) and has a total of 23 blocks, 12 Mark I type and 11 Mark II type, built in 1957.[http://partnernet.hktb.com/pnweb/jsp/comm/index.jsp?charset=en&pageContent=%2Fjsp%2Fmodule%2FHKEN%2FHKpictWTS.jsp Wong Tai Sin District] As local residents found the name Lo Fu Ngam (Tiger Hill) inauspicious, the settlement was later renamed to Lok Fu (happy and prosperous).{{Cite journal|last1=Scott|first1=Janet Lee|date=1982|title=Structure And Function In An Urban Organization: The Mutual Aid Committees|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch|language=en|volume=22|pages=5|issn=0085-5774}} A former shrine at the site was moved to a new location in Kwun Tong, which is now within the Tsui Ping Estate.{{cite journal |last1= Myers|first1= John T. |year= 1975|title=A Hong Kong Spirit-Medium Temple|journal= Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch|volume= 15|pages= 16–27|url= https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/34c8af470f36939a6b045664ab07c287.pdf|issn= 1991-7295}} In 1973, the area was renamed the Lok Fu Estate.[http://www.hk-place.com/vp.php?board=1&id=2147-1 三十三年前的樂富邨 (Chinese Version)] It started rehabilitation and redevelopment in the 1980s. In 1991, the six blocks in the nearby Wang Tau Hom Estate were allocated to the Lok Fu Estate.[http://www.takungpao.com:82/news/09/03/12/HY-1047462.htm 橫頭磡邨 {{in lang|zh}}]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Houses

File:HK WTS 樂富廣場 Lok Fu Estate covered footbridge May-2013.JPG

= Lok Fu Estate =

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
Name[http://www.housingauthority.gov.hk/en/interactivemap/estate/0,,1-347-12_4846,00.html Lok Fu Estate]TypeCompletionFloorsUnits per floorUnits
Wang Hong Houserowspan="6" | Old Slab (Special Edition)rowspan="5" | 1984rowspan="1" | 17rowspan="1" | 42 (Floors 6 and 7), 38 (other floors)rowspan="1" | 464
Wang Lok Houserowspan="1" | 18rowspan="1" | 17rowspan="1" | 255
Wang Shun Houserowspan="1" | 6rowspan="1" | 35rowspan="1" | 109
Wang Tat Houserowspan="1" | 4rowspan="1" | 18rowspan="1" | 18
Wang Yat Houserowspan="1" | 17rowspan="1" | 38rowspan="1" | 456
Wang Yuk Houserowspan="1" | 1985rowspan="1" | 18rowspan="1" | 17rowspan="1" | 255
Lok Tung Houserowspan="1" | Linear 3rowspan="1" | 1989rowspan="1" | 24rowspan="1" | 20rowspan="1" | 523
Lok Tai HouseHarmony 1A with Harmony Annex 2rowspan="4" | 1995/1996rowspan="1" | 18rowspan="1" | 20 (without wing), 29 (with wing)rowspan="1" | 469
Lok Him House

| rowspan="3" |Harmony 1A

rowspan="2" | 19rowspan="3" | 20
Lok Tsui Houserowspan="2" | 19
Lok Man Houserowspan="1" | 24

= Hong Keung Court =

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
Name[http://www.housingauthority.gov.hk/en/interactivemap/court/0,,1-0-12_5466,00.html Hong Keung Court]TypeCompletionFloorsUnits per floorUnits
Hong Keung Courtrowspan="1" | Harmony 1rowspan="1" | 1999rowspan="1" | 40 (Floors 1-40)rowspan="1" | 16rowspan="1" | 640

Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Lok Fu Estate had a population of 9,952. The median age was 50.8 and the majority of residents (96.5 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household comprised 2.7 persons. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$16,450.{{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=20 February 2020}}

See also

References

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Category:Public housing estates in Hong Kong

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