It's actually not damned, cursed, scary, or abandoned at all. Lots of families live there, just in very small units It looks right over a beautiful park, too.
Well that's what you read. I was born there, and lived in that very same district, in fact less than a minute's walk away from these very buildings, although the one I lived in had much larger units. Those buildings are filled with occupants and are still standing. Kowloon is a big place you might have confused them with buildings near the old airport.