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kindergarten accommodation. Some estates have community centres and, in the latest ones, the tendency is to concentrate ancillary services into separate buildings for welfare services, restaurants and administration.
The Housing Authority manages government low-cost housing estates on behalf of the Government. These estates are built by the Public Works Department, and all capital and recurrent expenditure is met from government revenue. The first of these was built in Kwun Tong in 1963. Ten completed and two partly completed estates accommodating 187,789 people in 33,620 flats were under the management of the authority at the end of 1970. Six projects were under development-oñe in Kwun Tong, one in Ho Man Tin and four in Kwai Chung. By the time all the six projects are com- pleted, about 430,000 people will find accommodation in 16 govern- ment low-cost housing estates.
The authority has also agreed to manage Pak Tin government resettlement estate, an estate of the latest design, comprising 8,546 flats in 14 blocks. The management of this estate will be on the same standard as for Housing Authority and government low-cost housing estates. Resettlement staff are accepted for training by attachment to the estates under the management of the authority.~~~
Government-aided housing
The Hong Kong Housing Authority, a statutory body created in 1954 by the Housing Ordinance (Chapter 283), aims to provide suitable accommodation for as many as possible of those people who are living in overcrowded or otherwise unsatisfactory condi- tions and cannot afford to pay the rent for comparable accommoda- tion in the open market. At the end of the year, the authority had provided accommodation for 205,044 people in 33,119 domestic flats in nine housing estates. Three estates are on Hong Kong Island, five in Kowloon and one in the New Territories. The largest is Wah Fu estate, comprising 7,788 flats for 53,910 people. It was nearly completed at the end of the year. The estate entirely completed during the year is Ping Shek estate in Kowloon, providing 4,567 new homes for 29,028 people. Another estate containing 6,320 flats for 46,175 people is under construction at Ho Man Tin.