Model Housing Estate (Chinese: 模範邨) is a public housing estate located at King's Road between Quarry Bay and North Point in Hong Kong, near MTR Quarry Bay Station Exit C.[1] It is the oldest existing public housing estate in Hong Kong.[2] It comprises 7 residential blocks completed in 1954 and 1979 respectively, offering a total of 667 flats.[3]
Unlike other public housing estate, Model Housing Estate was not developed by neither the Hong Kong Housing Authority nor the Hong Kong Housing Society. Instead, it was developed by a voluntary organization called "Hong Kong Model Housing Society" (Chinese: 香港模範屋宇會).
The estate was developed into two phases. Phase 1 includes Block A, B, C，D, E and F built between 1951 and 1953, Blocks A-E facing King's road shares the same design, and Block F close to the mountain stand at the back of Block A-E. In Phase 2 (between 1973 and 1979), The whole Block C, together with part of Block A and B (facing King's Road) was bought down and re-built into the current 20-stories, "T" shape new Block C (Block C1 on top of the old Block C, and Block C2 on top of where was part of Block A and B.). When Block C was completed in 1979, the manager responsible for flat allocation was suddenly missing. The Hong Kong Housing Authority then took over the whole estate and allocated the flats to Block C tenants.[4]
| Name[5][6] | Type | Completion |
|---|---|---|
| Man Shun House (Block A) | Old Slab | 1954 |
| Man King House (Block B) | ||
| Man Hong House (Block C1 and C2) | 1979 | |
| Man Ning House (Block D) | 1954 | |
| Man Cheung House (Block E) | ||
| Man Lok House (Block F) |