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Hong Kong is brimming with neon-lit shopping strips that sell luxury brands, jewels, and technology to eager consumers; the skyscraper-filled skyline contains businesses that make the city one of the world’s major financial hubs. Yet behind the glamorous facade, approximately 200,000 people, including 40,000 children, live in spaces ranging in size from around 15 – 100 square feet.
With a population of nearly 7.5 million and almost no developable land remaining, Hong Kong’s housing market has risen to the most expensive in the world. Pushed out by soaring rents, tens of thousands of people have no other option than to inhabit squatter huts, sub-divided units where the kitchen and toilet merge, coffin cubicles, and cage homes, which are rooms measuring as small as 6’ x 2.5’ traditionally made of wire mesh. “From cooking to sleeping, all activities take place in these tiny spaces,” says Lam. To create the coffin cubicles a 400 square flat will be illegally divided by its owner to accommodate 20 double-decker beds, each costing about HK$2000 (over $250 USD) per month in rent. The space is too small to stand up in.
Better than being homeless, but only just.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @01:23AM (3 children)
That's a great idea, we don't even need cities anymore. Lets all be farmers again.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 30 2017, @08:57AM (2 children)
You need to get out more. There is a whole wide world outside of major urban centers waiting for you to discover it does and always has existed. Maybe then you'd understand how Trump got elected.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @10:56PM
I had no idea the gov redistricted the rural areas into insane asylums. Weird, but whatever makes you happy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @05:51PM
So tell me when you lived in the city buzzard?
Cause I've lived in many suburban and rural places..and the only benefit I see is lower cost and obstinately more privacy. But the latter goes away really quick in rural areas I've noticed that the police seem to all be programmed to turn every interaction so have fun getting pulled over for driving late at night or having every noise complaint turn into an illegal/barely legal search of your residence.
I couldn't believe how much nicer life got in the city and how many retarded bills and possessions I was able to shed when I moved here. For awhile I was making enough to pay all my monthly bills every 2.5 days though I have to admit things are getting much more expensive now.
Also the only excuse anyone has for voting trump is a fundamental lack of understanding about the world beyond their neighborhood. Which is ok to have, nobody knows everything, but electing trump president was not ok and pretending he represents anyone except himself and distantly 2nd other rootless cosmopolitan elites is retarded.