Cages for housing in Hong Kong (18 photos)

In Hong Kong, more than 100 000 people live in small cages, one fifth of them - the children. Two-storey cell area of ​​no more than two square meters. They pass the whole life: people are asleep and awake, raising their children, retain their property and dream of a life that will give them more space.





In a brilliant metropolis of Hong Kong about 1, 3 million people are oppressed economically and socially. One tenth of them lives in cages. Often it is the elderly, single mothers with children or migrants from mainland China. Because of an error in the policy planning of housing single people are deprived of social living space.

Sly owners of houses and apartments to recognize in this situation a lucrative market. They have provided apartments, which are designed for one family, the largest number of cells and their exorbitant lease rent for those who can not afford anything else