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- Published on: Wednesday, August 15, 2018
- When houses are the size of parking spaces.
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Hong Kong is the most expensive housing market in the world. It has been ranked as the least affordable housing market on Earth for eight years in a row, and the price per square foot seems to be only going up. The inflated prices are forcing Hongkongers to squeeze into unconventionally small spaces that can affect their quality of life.
Tens of thousands of Hongkongers are living in spaces that range from 75 to 140 square feet. To put that in perspective, the average parking space in the US is about 150 square feet. And in the most extreme cases, Hongkongers have resorted to homes the size of a coffin.
I spent some time exploring the living situation in Hong Kong to find out why housing has become so expensive and spaces so tight.
To understand how Hong Kong’s housing market turned out this way and see how it’s affecting people’s lives, watch the final episode of Borders Hong Kong.
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a years ago +1702Cage homes are just one fascinating product of Hong Kong's unique composition and history. For more check out the full Vox Borders Hong Kong playlist here: http://bit.ly/2OIuyUb
Depressed Squirrel
26 minutes agoThis is what the whole world will be like soon. Mark my words...
Jesus H Christ
11 hours agoStop breeding so much
all in one channel
15 hours agoWow after watching this video i feel like i m living in a big house... Although i m living in 2 bedrooms n lounge apartment... Thank you Allah
Bozica
17 hours agoThey pay so much for those !?
Soldier ofYHVH
19 hours agoHong Kong is becoming the resurrected Walled City!
Annette Powell
22 hours agoQuite frightening, so many people all cramped together can’t be good for their mental health. They work so hard, they deserve better.
Abdul BS Mohammed
yesterdayHong Kong should follow Dubai model and start making small island around to create more space and keep their main land as it is and better living conditions for their people....
Cynthia Broyles
yesterdayThe rich government needs to step up and build affordable housing. No-one makes them so they don't have to. America, how about using some of our influence in that?
Epic world
yesterdayIs anyone knews the starting music ?
其實寂寞
yesterdaySame story today.
Heisenberg
yesterdayIt s simple.
To much people on earth.😶
Nicholas Hirayama
yesterdaySeems like a failure
kubuspuchatek19833
yesterday +1So this is the so-called progressive world? I'm so happy to be living in a more economically backward country but at least having a decent apartment and free time for my hobbies and my family...This is a sheer nightmare.
LEO
yesterdayAgenda 21?
T Dog
yesterday +1I’d rather live in a cage than to listen to the intro music.
Anam Amer
yesterdayso after poultry farm animals now even humans are living in cages. we humans really are a walking disaster
brad Lancaster
yesterdayThey're trying to drive the people out of the country. Plain and simple. 🤷🏻♂️
Stranger
yesterdayI would just do a small crime like stealing something and live in a jail instead
Manuel
yesterday +1How can to free up more land and thereby destroy nature be your solution? There is not a shortage of buildings in Hong Kong, it's the way they are used that needs to be regulated. Less office space more housing...