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The Authority has also managed to secure two adjoining

sites on which it proposes to build another four domestic blocks

of 10 to 12 storeys high and a secondary and a primary school.

They are scheduled for completion between 1978/79.

There will be about 1,430 flats, each about 300 square

feet, suitable for small families.

These seven blocks should provide homes for about 14,000

people. The estimated building cost is about $54 million.

The Tai Hang Tung redevelopment project is part of the

Housing Authority's long-term plan to relieve overcrowding and to

improve the living conditions of tenants in the older public housing

estates.

The existing 14 Mark I blocks will be demolished in stages

and in their place will be built public housing blocks of the new

design that provides for self-contained accommodation,

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