Hong Kong Tiny Coffin Apartments
Photographer benny lam has documented the suffocating living conditions in hong kongs subdivided flats recording the lives of these hidden communities benny lam main image. Hong kong residents have less living space than prisoners in high security jail cells according to a new study by the kwai chung subdivided flat residents alliance.
Hong Kong S Poorest Living In Coffin Homes Benjamin Max Gottlieb
There are about 200000 people living in some form of subdivided apartment in hong kong including coffin homes and 18 are younger than 15 according to a government report released last year.
Hong kong tiny coffin apartments. Just looking at these tiny shoebox apartments in hong kong will make you claustrophobic hong kong has a problem. Coffin cubicles in. These tiny apartments within apartments are known as coffin cubicles originally single apartment spaces theyve been divided into units and then again into wood partitioned cubicles.
In hong kong where the cost of property has more than doubled since 2012 some are forced to live in spaces ominously referred to as cage homes or coffin apartments tiny cramped and for. Shocking pictures of hong kong coffin homes show chopping boards feet away from toilets in cramped apartments as narrow as a single mattress. With its population growing steadily it doesnt have enough space to house the 72.
Pushed out by the sky high prices of rent in glittering hong kong these people get by in illegally subdivided apartments. Exploring the tiny coffin homes of hong kong chinese citys 40 square foot apartments push the lower limit of living for urban poor. 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.
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