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The slum area in Shek Kip Mei after the great fire on the Christmas Day of 1953.

The Resettlement Department (Chinese: 徙置事務處) was a department of the Government of Hong Kong, responsible for constructing resettlement estates for homeless refugees, established in 1954. In 1973, the Resettlement Department and the Building Section of the Urban Services Department were merged to form the Housing Department, which acts as the Housing Authority's executive body.[1]

  1. ^ "Memories of Home – 50 Years of Public Housing in Hong Kong" Archived 2011-02-18 at the Wayback Machine

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The mud spilled over Tsui Ping Road into the Kwun Tong Resettlement Estate. Resettlement Department staff and fathers of the adjacent Kwun Tong Maryknoll...

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client – the Finnish Government. He had offered the Director of the Resettlement Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Veikko Vennamo, writing desks designed...

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