FROM her designer dresses to her black lacquer dining suite, new Housing Authority chairman Rosanna Wong Yick-ming is Mid-Levels through and through.
It was where she grew up, where she started her family, and now, having split from her husband, it is where she raises her two children in a smart Conduit Road apartment.
For an estimated $4 million, Ms Wong bought a three-bedroom, two-bathroom, 1,250-sq-ft flat with a balcony and a splendid view. It comes complete with swimming pool, children's playground and barbecue pits.
The property is very much in keeping with the style to which she is accustomed.
Before that, she spent years in the doctors' quarters of Queen Mary Hospital in Pokfulam. It was a flat of at least 1,500-sq-ft for which her ex-husband, a doctor, paid a nominal sum as rent.
Perhaps the one flat she could call cramped was the one on Lyttelton Road where she grew up. The 1,200-sq-ft apartment was home to eight people - including her secondary school teacher mother, businessman father, and four sisters and one brother.
''It is a fact of life,'' she said of her Mid-Levels residential status. ''But one cannot draw the conclusion that because of this I am unable to understand the conditions in public housing estates.'' Ms Wong has spent the week since her appointment was announced strongly defending her middle-class background, maintaining it does not make it impossible for her to relate to public housing tenants, many of whom spend a lifetime in tiny flats sharing bathrooms and bedrooms with, sometimes, three generations of a family.