Hong Kong Apartments Coffin

Associated press photographer kin cheung spent time recently photographing some of the tiny subdivided housing units in hong kong known as coffin homes and those who live in them. The residents of lucky house in hong kong are anything but fortunate.

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Hong kong has long been known for it wealth and prosperitybut beyond the glitz this is the reality for many residents.

Hong kong apartments coffin. They are some of the poorest people in the most expensive city in the world. An estimated 200000 hong kong residents live in boxes measuring no bigger than 4x6 coffin homes as theyre more commonly known. Just looking at these tiny shoebox apartments in hong kong will make you claustrophobic hong kong has a problem.

Pushed out by the sky high prices of rent in glittering hong kong these people get by in illegally subdivided apartments. With its population growing steadily it doesnt have enough space to house the 72. In wealthy hong kong theres a dark side to a housing boom with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments coffin homes and other inadequate housing ap 1119.

From 400 a month coffin apartments in hong kong to one room families in la how cities are now full to bursting. Photographer benny lam has documented the suffocating living conditions in hong kongs subdivided flats recording the lives of these hidden communities. The citys apartments cost 181 times the gross annual median income.

Shocking pictures of hong kong coffin homes show chopping boards feet away from toilets in cramped apartments as narrow as a single mattress. In one of its 46 sq metre 500 sq ft apartments. The tiniest living spaces in the world.

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