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to them for their employees a guaranteed number of flats. The Society's principal estates are:
(a) Hung Hom: a further 576 flats housing 3,690 people were added during 1958 to the existing 684 flats and 25 shops housing 4,428 people.
(b) Sheung Li Uk: a further 90 flats housing 494 people were added during 1958 to the existing estate of 270 flats housing 1,400 people.
(c) Healthy Village: this estate contains 280 flats and 12 shops, housing 1,689 people. A further 318 flats to house 2,264 people were under construction and due for completion in 1959.
(d) Ma Tau Chung: this estate contains 184 cottages, housing
1,032 people.
(e) Tsuen Wan: during 1958, 116 flats housing 978 people were built at Tsuen Wan and a further 303 flats to house 2,029 people were under construction and due for comple- tion in 1959.
(f) Kwun Tong: during 1958, 189 flats housing 1,306 people were constructed and a further 891 flats to house 5,595 people were due to be completed in 1959.
In addition, site formation commenced on two more schemes (Shu Kuk Street-590 flats for 3,794 people) and Shau Kei Wan (2,913 flats for 19,173 people), and land was ear-marked at Aberdeen for 1,110 flats to house 7,077 people and at Kai Tak for 378 flats to house 2,100 people.
Other voluntary societies interested in low-cost housing include the Hong Kong Model Housing Society, which in 1952 completed 100 flats in an estate at North Point and in subsequent years has added a further 200 flats; and the Hong Kong Economic Society, which in 1955 completed its estate housing 280 families at Lady Grantham Villas in Kowloon.
Amongst employers, there have been two tendencies, the first of which is exemplified by the textile and other modern factories which have included in their premises dormitory-type accommoda- tion for their workers (but not families). The second method, that of constructing flats for employees and their families, has been followed, for example, by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which has erected 100 flats for its local staff housing
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