HONG Kong residents crammed into so-called coffin homes sleep on tiny beds which fill entire rooms without enough space for ...

Hong Kong's severe housing crisis forces over 200,000 residents into tiny "coffin homes," some as small as 15 square feet, ...

HONG KONG – Li Suet-wen's dream home would have ... metal cages resembling rabbit hutches and "coffin homes" made of stacked wooden bunks. It's a universe away from the lifestyles enjoyed ...

HONG KONG — Some 200,000 of Hong Kong’s 7.3 million residents live in “subdivided units.” That’s up 18 percent from four years ago and includes 35,500 children 15 and under, government ...

A resident of a "coffin" home smokes in the corridor of a unit divided into upper and lower bunk-style compartments, housing about 20 people, in Hong Kong, China, July 10, 2024. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu ...

One traveler recently shared his experiences of staying in a "coffin home" while in Hong Kong. In a TikTok video with over 6.1 million views, Wei Shen whose Instagram account describes him as an ...

Image The new rules will not address living conditions in so-called coffin homes or cage homes like this one, which are the smallest housing units in Hong Kong.Credit...Billy H.C. Kwok for The New ...

However, steps are being taken to make 'coffin homes' a thing of the past. Hong Kong vowed to adopt new laws setting minimum space and safety norms for subdivided flats, where each resident lives ...

HONG KONG • Li Suet-wen’s dream home would have a bedroom and living room where her two children could play and study. The reality is a one-room “shoebox” cubicle, one Skip to main content ...

SoCO called for the new regulations to extend to “coffin” homes. “This kind of bed homes is the shame of Hong Kong,” said its deputy director, Sze Lai-shan. The Housing Bureau said the ...

Leung used to manage a factory in mainland China before the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s, but now, estranged from his wife and two grown-up children, lives in a "coffin" home in Hong Kong ...