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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

they began to spend more on interior design and furniture to make their apartment their dream home,” she says. Household demographics in Hong Kong are also changing from the multigenerational ...

Her cramped Hong Kong home is one of four units carved out of what was once a single apartment. Most of the space is occupied by the bunk bed she shares with her husband and son, and their sleep ...