HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY #52*A*
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Tuesday, November 2, 1976
HOUSING AUTHORITY BLOCK TO BE CONVERTED
WHILE TENANTS STAY PUT
The Housing Authority is shortly to begin converting flats in Lok Fu Estate at Kowloon while tenants are still living in them.
The pilot scheme is part of the Authority's multi-million dollar plans to improve the environment in all its original Mark I and Mark II estates and relieve overcrowding.
A spokesman for the Authority said today the normal procedure for redeveloping a block was for tenants to move out before work started, as had happened at Shek Kip Mei and Tai Wo Hau.
"But, in view of the vastness of our redevelopment programme
and the long time it is likely to take before all estates can be dealt with, we have decided to experiment with an 'in situ' conversion at Lok Fu," he said,
Block 11 of the estate has been selected.
Conversion work
will begin there later this month (November) and be completed before the end of March next year.
The scheme has been made possible through the agreement of
half the families living in the block to move elsewhere,
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