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THIS PHOTOGRAPH shows the second estate to be built by the Hong Kong Housing Authority to provide flats at moderate rentals for families of small means. Situated near Cadogan Street, Kennedy Town, overlooking the western end of the harbour by Green Island, the estate consists of 636 flats, at rentals ranging from approximately $80 to $130 a month. When all the flats are fully occupied
the population of the estate will be in the neighbourhood of 4,200. Tenants started to move into the estate towards the end of 1958 but it will be Spring 1959 before all five blocks have been completed and the last tenants are able to take possession. The estate has been built on a particularly steep and difficult hillside site, covering about 34 acres. at a cost of approximately $8 million.