The Yen Chow Street Temporary Housing Area site was once occupied by the Jubilee Buildings, apartments for British Army families completed in 1935. These were used (as was the whole site) as a prisoner-of-war camp during the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945. Following the Vietnam War and the influx of Vietnamese refugees to Hong Kong it became the Jubilee Transit Centre. Originally designed to house 500 members of army families, the population of Vietnamese refugees swelled to more than 3,000 by 1983. Caritas Hong Kong took over the camp and managed it, running within its confines a nursery, a recreation centre, a clinic, minors quarters, and a school.