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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, ...
In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 photo, a resident who only gave his surname Sin, 55, tidies up the bed in his "coffin home" in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there's a dark side to a housing boom ...
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 figures show.
A man lies in a cage home unit, a type of housing that has become increasingly rare in Hong Kong due to its harsh conditions, now largely replaced by “coffin” homes, in Hong Kong, China, July ...
A resident rests in his upper-level "coffin" home in Hong Kong, China, August 15, 2024. These windowless spaces are just big enough, at 15 sq ft (1.4 sq m) to 18 sq ft (1.7 sq m), for people to ...
Hong Kong has among the world’s most expensive homes, and highest rents. The average living space per person is 64.6 square feet — less than half the size of a New York City parking space.
More than 200,000 people in Hong Kong, China, live in partitioned shoebox apartments that offer just a few feet of space. They can barely fit a double bed and have become notorious for high rents.
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 ...
Tiny homes. Still, Hong Kong's roughly 110,000 sub-divided flats have become notorious for high rents, with a median floor rate of HK$50 ... lives in a "coffin" home in 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 of five partitioned out of a small ...