Social housing in Hong Kong

You think you have a small and cramped apartment? Not enough square meters? Then you have not been to Hong Kong. The total area of ​​a standard apartment for 5 people at the local rate is 25-28 m² in size - about 2, 2 m² of housing space per adult, and 1, 1 m² for each child. In the queue for social housing in Hong Kong is more than 100 thousand people. But unlike Russia, the average waiting time for an apartment for only two years.
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1. To date, almost half of Hong Kong residents living in "social" buildings and uses different kinds of housing subsidies. Rental housing in these homes are cheaper than in the private sector. In addition, it is subsidized by the income received from the lease of land and buildings for car parks and shops in the very social buildings and in the vicinity of them.



2. Normally, construction is under way in remote or relatively inaccessible areas. However, as the expansion of the city, it is in the center of urban areas. A significant part of the construction of real estate is represented by high-rise buildings, and in recent years (since 2005), they reach a height of 40 floors.



3. I went to the usual two-bedroom apartment in a house that's on the 19th floor. The total area of ​​about 28 square meters.
I do not know how much such an apartment in the "social rent" to the locals, but I know that this apartment for foreigners (now live here two students) is 60,000 rubles per month.



4. The view from the first room is a part-hall. On the left front door, behind the curtain - window. On the right wall of the bathroom, and then - a bedroom.



5. View from the front door. The kitchen is right in the center of the hall (it is very large).



6. Normal bath. Reduce there is nothing.



7. Kitchen smaller bathroom, only 2, 5 meters.



8. Sink, the sill and window.



9. The first bedroom, 5 m². Bed from wall to wall.



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11. In the window integrated monoblock air conditioning.



12. The second bedroom, it is a little more - meter 6.



13. Staircase. An interesting point - in the building of two elevators, one stops on even floors, on the other odd.



14. Mailboxes on the ground floor. All clean and tidy.



15. The picture from the cameras is transmitted to the screen in front of the elevators. Someone wrote that in Russia there are concierge. This is not so - there he is on the top right of the photo.



16. The apartments on the upper floors are more expensive. The roof can be divided into small garden or make the veranda.



17. Hong Kong is one of the most expensive cities in the world, but about 50% of the population lives in no better conditions.



18. Gradually, modern skyscrapers replacing the old building.



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20. Life in the cell.



21. The facade of a modern apartment skyscraper.



22. Facade of old residential buildings.



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24. All communications are brought out.



25. Pipes paint in the color of the walls. It turns out beautifully.



26. That's how they live.



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