Model Housing Estate is a public housing estate

Public housing in Hong Kong

Public housing in Hong Kong is a set of mass housing programmes through which the Government of Hong Kong provides affordable housing for lower-income residents. It is a major component of housing in Hong Kong, with nearly half of the population now residing in some form of public housing...

 located at King's Road between Quarry Bay

Quarry Bay

Quarry Bay is an area beneath Mount Parker in the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. The western portion of the area was also formerly known as Lai Chi...

 and North Point

North Point

North Point is a mixed-use urban area in the Eastern District of Hong Kong. It is the northernmost point of Hong Kong Island, adjacent to both Causeway Bay and Quarry Bay, and projecting toward Kowloon Bay. Fortress Hill occupies the western end of the North Point area.-History:In 1899, The...

 in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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, near MTR

MTR

Mass Transit Railway is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong. Originally opened in 1979, the system now includes 211.6 km of rail with 155 stations, including 86 railway stations and 69 light rail stops...

 Quarry Bay Station Exit C. It is the oldest existing public housing estate in Hong Kong. It comprises 7 residential blocks completed in 1954 and 1979 respectively, offering a total of 667 flats.

Background

Unlike other public housing estate, Model Housing Estate was not developed by neither the Hong Kong Housing Authority

Hong Kong Housing Authority

The Hong Kong Housing Authority is the main provider of public housing in Hong Kong. It was established in 1973 under the Housing Ordinance and is an agency of the Government of Hong Kong...

 nor the Hong Kong Housing Society

Hong Kong Housing Society

The Hong Kong Housing Society or Housing Society for short, is the second largest public housing provider in Hong Kong . The HKHS is a non-governmental organization and non profit organization that was founded in 1948 by "members coming from all walks of life" with a donation of £14,000...

. Instead, it was developed by a voluntary organization called "Hong Kong Model Housing Society" .

The estate was developed into two phases. Phase 1 includes Block A, B, C，D, E and F built between 1951 and 1953, Blocks A-E facing King's road shares the same design, and Block F close to the mountain stand at the back of Block A-E. In Phase 2 (between 1973 and 1979), The whole Block C, together with part of Block A and B (facing King's Road) was bought down and re-built into the current 20-stories, "T" shape new Block C (Block C1 on top of the old Block C, and Block C2 on top of where was part of Block A and B.). When Block C was completed in 1979, the manager

Management

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 responsible for flat allocation was suddenly missing. The Hong Kong Housing Authority then took over the whole estate and allocated the flats to Block C tenants.

Houses

Name	Type	Completion
Man Shun House (Block A)	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....	1954
Man King House (Block B)
Man Hong House (Block C1 and C2)		1979
Man Ning House (Block D)		1954
Man Cheung House (Block E)
Man Lok House (Block F)