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Hong Kong's severe housing crisis forces over 200,000 residents into tiny "coffin homes," some as small as 15 square feet, costing £217 monthly. These cramped spaces, often lacking basic amenities, ...
Feelings of depression, anxiety and stress worse for those who say they lack play and study areas at home, while academic ...
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 has about 110,000 subdivided units that house about 220,000 residents, authorities estimate. NGOs have long called attention to the cramped living spaces and poor fire safety standards ...
These windowless spaces are still more cramped, but just big enough, at 1.4 square meters to 1.7 square meters, for people to sleep in and store a few personal items. ... 'Shame of Hong Kong' ...
MORE than 200,000 people in Hong Kong, China, are forced to endure cramped, squalid conditions - living in tiny box-like homes with barely a few feet of personal space ©News Group Newspapers ...
Bowie Chan Wing-wai, 41, who runs the Hong Kong Reptile Channel on Facebook, said turtles and other small reptiles were popular in the city because many people lived in cramped living spaces and ...
Hong Kong children who feel they lack study and play areas at home have poorer mental health and academic results, a poll has found. Survey results published on Monday also showed that about 40 ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) ... These windowless spaces are still more cramped, but just big enough, at 15 sq ft (1.4 sq m) to 18 sq ft (1.7 sq m), for people to sleep in and store a few personal items.
HONG KONG — Housing is famously cramped in the Asian financial hub of ... "All I hope for is to quickly get into public housing," said Wong Chi-kong, 76, who pays HK$2,900 for a space smaller ...