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To date, as a result of conversion work, improved accommodation for

more than 6,000 people has already been provided at Shek Kip Mei, including flats

for one and two person households, who account for about 12 per cent of all

households in the old estates. Rehousing operations involving the movement of

6,500 persons from three blocks have recently been completed after a year's patient

endeavour. The majority of the families concerned have been rehoused at Upper Pak

Tin Estate; this brings the total number of people rehoused since 1972 to about

28,000.

Subsequent phases of redevelopment in this area, the next of which is

to be completed by mid-1978, will provide homes for a further 27,000 people. It

is expected that the whole scheme, costing $206 million, will be finished in five

years.

At Tai Hang Tung, the first phase of redevelopment began last year on

a site opposite the old estate and is due to be completed by mid-1977. It comprises

three domestic blocks for 6,400 persons, a commercial complex and multi-storey ·

garage. Later phases, to be completed by 1979/80, will provide housing for a

further 7,000 persons. Eventually, the redeveloped estate will accommodate about

29,000.

New self-contained accommodation for 22,000 persons, a major commercial

complex, schools and recreation areas will be provided through the redevelopment

of Chai Wan West Estate which got under way with a scheme to rehouse residents

of two blocks last March. About three quarters of the households in the two old

blocks have now been rehoused in the second phase of Hing Wah Estate.

The latest redevelopment operation, begun only three months ago, 18.

taking place at Tai Wo Hau where 803 families are in the process of being rehoused

so that the two blocks they are now living in can be demolished to make way for

eventual rebuilding. After some initial problems the rehousing operation is now

going smoothly with half of the families having already moved to alternative

accommodation.

A spokesman for the Housing Authority described the redevelopment scheme,

under which 500,000 people will eventually move into greatly improved accommodation,

as the largest in the world.