Public housing in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Housing Authority was formed in 1954, soon after a major file in Shek Kip Mei left 53000 people homeless on christmas day of 1953. By today, it built over 400 estates housing half of Hong Kong population.
Housing in Hong Kong
Private housing in Hong Kong
Private housing in Hong Kong include tenement buildings, stand-alone buildings, private housing estates, villas and village houses.
Kowloon Walled City
A political loophole between China and Hong Kong created a 2.6 hectare Chinese enclave in Kowloon where Hong Kong authorities had no rights and Chinese authorities refused to take care. Originally a military fort, it developed into a city for refugees, criminals, illegal businesses, drug dealers, unlicensed doctors and dentists, who could operate there without threat of prosecution. Was demolished in 1993 and replaced by a park.
Housing database
Public housing and private housing estates. Region, district, estate, phase, block, number of floors, units per floor, total units, occupation date.
Gross floor area, saleable floor area, and efficiency explained
Hong Kong use an unique system where Gross floor area include a sharepart of common spaces, thus two blocks with identical apartment units but with different number of units per floor had different gross floor area stated for each apartment, because in the block with fewer apartments per floor the common areas were divided to fewer apartments. In other countries Gross floor area meaning is like Hong Kong’s Saleable area.
Panoramic views
Enjoy breathtaking panoramas over Hong Kong towers!
Housing statistics
Per total, 53% of housing are owner-occupied. Is hard for me to make estimation about average apartment size in Hong Kong or about the ratio sqm per person, due to lack of detailed statistics about housing system, high income inequality, many people living in extremely small 1-room apartments, illegally-divided apartments, as well as boathouses, caged homes, rooftop huts and other forms of inhumane homes.