More than 200,000 people in Hong Kong are crammed into tiny subdivided flats but a government plan to build temporary housing ...

with little room to move and no privacy—this is the reality for hundreds of thousands of people in the highly populated city of Hong Kong, who live in what has been dubbed 'coffin homes' or ...

Hong Kong struggles with extreme housing inequality, with 200,000 residents living in cramped sub-divided flats or 'coffin' ...

In October, Hong Kong vowed to adopt new laws setting minimum space and safety norms for sub-divided flats, where each ...

In comparison, London is the most densely populated city in the UK but only has 5,960 people per square kilometre. Even ...

There are even smaller rooms known as coffin or cage homes, although they can be difficult to categorise. Hong Kong authorities have recorded about 110,000 subdivided flats in the city — a ...

SoCO called for the new regulations to extend to “coffin” homes. “This kind of bed homes is the shame of Hong Kong,” said its deputy director, Sze Lai-shan. The Housing Bureau said the ...

A man lies in a cage home unit, a type of housing that has become increasingly rare in Hong Kong due to its harsh conditions, now largely replaced by “coffin” homes, in Hong Kong, China, July 10, 2024 ...