Many tenants in Housing Authority estates pay less rent than they did for their squatter accommodation. For them, the move opens up a whole new way of life.
The Choi Hung Estate, being built by the Housing Authority in Clear Water Bay Road, Kowloon, at a cost of over $50 million, will house more than 40,000 people when completed in 1963. The estate will include a secondary school for boys, a secondary modern school and three primary schools.
For the first time they are able to buy decent furniture and little luxuries such as a radio without having to fear that rain will come through the roof to ruin them.
Choi Hung Estate consists of eight 'slab' blocks of 20 storeys and a number of seven-storey blocks. The first flats were occupied in mid-1962 and the tradi- tionally hung laundry immediately made its appear- ance. Each of the tall blocks has 40 flats on each floor. Rents range from $50 to $130 a month.
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