Inside the shocking ‘coffin homes’ of the world’s most expensive city
Hong Kong has the smallest average house size in the world and yet is also one of the most expensive cities in the world. As ...
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Housing chief rejects ‘alarmist, pessimistic’ sentiment in Guardian report on Hong Kong’s ‘coffin’ homes
See also: The infamous ‘coffin homes’ that Hong Kong’s new housing reforms won’t touch She added: “As for so-called ‘cage homes’ and other small bedspaces, the Bedspace Apartments ...
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Hong Kong's 20-square-foot 'coffin homes' expose a terrifying truth about the future of cities
Scattered around the island are microapartments filled with so-called "coffin homes" - rooms ... and financial district. "In Hong Kong, everyone's apartment is horizontal - you don't really ...
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Just looking at these tiny shoebox apartments in Hong Kong will make you claustrophobic
To maximize income from the rent in central Hong Kong, landlords build ... of their resemblance to real coffins. Twenty-four people live here, packed in a single apartment of little over 500 ...
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Hong Kong struggles to improve conditions in tiny, crowded homes
HONG KONG--Housing is famously cramped ... actions against unlicensed bedspace apartments. Sum, a 72-year-old bachelor, has lived in a “coffin” home for three years, paying HK$2,500 in monthly ...
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In Hong Kong they use cardboard coffins due to the number of deaths during the new COVID-19 outbreak
Workers move coffins as mortuaries run short of coffins amid Shenzhen lockdown during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Hong Kong, China, March 16, 2022. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo ...