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Hong Kong spends HK$1.3 million on YouTube video to mark handover anniversary, but only nets 4,000 views

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2022 will go down as the year of Hong Kong’s re-education

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Hong Kong at 25

Life in Hong Kong’s worst living spaces: from cage homes to subdivided flats

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Hong Kong

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Hong Kong 25

Why Hongkongers in city’s notorious subdivided flats say they have no choice

The long waiting time for public rental flats means the city’s poorest families end up in tiny, shared living spaces.


Depression, cockroaches, rats and shame add up to misery for Hongkongers in subdivided flats

Poor living conditions take a toll on physical, mental health of 220,000 sharing the city’s smallest living spaces with many others.


Can Hong Kong deliver on 2049 target to wipe out subdivided flats and ‘cage homes’?

For more than 220,000 in appalling subdivided units, dream of better housing seems beyond reach.


More than 220,000 people live in Hong Kong’s notorious subdivided flats, facing grim conditions as well as fire and security hazards because they can afford nothing better. Beijing has demanded that the local government rid the city of these tiny units and ‘cage homes’ by 2049. In a three-part series, the Post looks at the realities of life in such dwellings, speaks to the people forced to live in them, and more.


Hong Kong at 25: Society

Hong Kong housing

Hong Kong society

Series

Life in Hong Kong’s worst living spaces: from cage homes to subdivided flats

‘Like caged animals’: Hongkongers in subdivided flats say they have no choice

The long waiting time for public rental flats means the city’s poorest families end up in tiny, shared living spaces.

‘This is not a home’: depression, anxiety of Hongkongers in subdivided flats

Poor living conditions take a toll on physical, mental health of 220,000 sharing the city’s smallest living spaces with many others.

‘I will probably die in one of them’: can Hong Kong clear out cage homes?

For more than 220,000 in appalling subdivided units, dream of better housing seems beyond reach.