Introduction
Wong Tai Sin District is one of the 18 administrative districts in Hong Kong and takes its name from the famous Wong Tai Sin Temple, a landmark of the District. Over the years, Wong Tai Sin has been transformed from a plain and simple rural village to a district with well-developed public housing estates and a population of 440,000.
Wong Tai Sin District now covers an area of 926 hectares lying to the northeast of the Kowloon Peninsula. 86.2% of the population (around 380,000 people) in the District live in public rental housing, Home Ownership Scheme/Private Sector Participation Scheme flats and Sandwich Class Housing Loan Scheme flats; while the remaining 13.8% (around 60,000 people) live in various kinds of private housing and temporary structures.