Inside Hong Kong’s cage houses
When residences are the dimension of garage.
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Hong Kong is one of the most costly real estate market on the planet. It has actually been rated as the least budget-friendly real estate market in the world for 8 years straight, and also the cost per square foot appears to be just increasing. The filled with air costs are compeling Hongkongers to press right into unconventionally tiny areas that can influence their lifestyle.
10s of countless Hongkongers are staying in areas that vary from 75 to 140 square feet. To place that in viewpoint, the ordinary garage in the United States has to do with 150 square feet. And also in one of the most severe situations, Hongkongers have actually turned to houses the dimension of a casket.
I invested time checking out the living circumstance in Hong Kong to figure out why real estate has actually come to be so costly and also areas so tight.
To comprehend just how Hong Kong’s real estate market ended up by doing this and also see just how it’s influencing individuals’s lives, view the last episode of Borders Hong Kong.
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