History
Mei Foo Sun Chuen was built in 8 stages from 1965 to 1978 on the reclamation formerly used for petroleum storage by Mobil (Now ExxonMobil) in Hong Kong (Mobil's Chinese trading name in Hong Kong is 美孚/Mei Foo). The development was conducted by Mei Foo Investments Limited, a subsidiary company of Mobil Oil (Hong Kong) Limited.
At the time of building, the government was tackling the serious squatter hut problem by constructing public resettlement estates for citizens without homes (especially those displaced by the Shek Kip Mei fire). Mei Foo Sun Chuen was conceived to meet the housing needs of Hong Kong's middle-income families, an emerging and growing group at the time. At the time, a flat in Mei Foo cost around HK$40,000.
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