Name: Square Metre of Hell - CCP's Hong Kong
Uploaded: 2022-05-17T02:40:58+00:00
Duration: 27 min 23 s
Description: Hong Kong is famous for its dense skyline dominated by luxurious skyscrapers. And it’s not just the city’s high rises that soar above the clouds - rents are exorbitant. So much so that the poorest res

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Hong Kong is famous for its dense skyline dominated by luxurious skyscrapers. And it’s not just the city’s high rises that soar above the clouds - rents are exorbitant.

So much so that the poorest residents have no choice other than squeezing into tiny apartments known as cage houses.

They are cages - sleeping compartments in a shared room separated from neighbours by wire mesh. Cage homes cost around $300 per month - still beyond the means of many low-income Hongkongers. Watch Square Metre of Hell for more about the housing crisis in Hong Kong.