32. Notable operations during the year were the clearances for the Lung Cheung Road/Po Kong Village Road Grade Separated Inter- section (Part I) in which 540 structures were cleared and 404 persons rehoused, the Lung Cheung Road Extension Stage II Remainder (Parts I & II) in which 1,601 structures were demolished and 2,326 persons rehoused, and the Hong Ning Road Recreation Ground Clearance in which 2,356 persons were offered public housing.
33. In December 1972 a fire broke out in the Tai Hom Tsuen squatter area and made 1,934 persons homeless; they were offered rehousing. The rainstorms of June 1972 brought heavy flooding to a number of squatter and licensed areas and undermined the stability of hillsides overlooking some areas, posing a threat to the safety of the squatters in the vicinity. Nearly 12,000 people had been rehoused from these areas up to the end of March 1973, and a further 7,000 had been offered rehousing.
(1) Mark I
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RESETTLEMENT ESTATES
34. The first multi-storey domestic blocks constructed in 1954 were intended as basic emergency housing, and were thus built in quantity, at great speed and at a price that enabled the accommodation to be let at rents the rehoused squatters could afford. In order to rehouse as many people as quickly as possible, the decision was reluctantly taken to give each adult person only 24 square feet of space, and the rooms were designed accordingly at 120 square feet each at an assumed average family size of 5 persons. Over the yeans improvements were introduced, and there are at present six different types of buildings:
Six or seven storeys, built between 1954 and 1961, with communal wash-places and lavatories and an access balcony running around the perimeter of each floor. The standard size of room is 120 square feet, housing 4 - 5 persons at a monthly rent of $18 includ- ing water charges. There are 146 Mark I blocks. Seven or eight storeys, built between 1961 and 1964 to a design similar to Mark I, but with large rooms of 310 square feet with balconies provided at each end of the block. There are 94 Mark II blocks.
(2) Mark II
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