They've been condemned by the UN as 'an insult to human dignity', but so-called 'coffin homes' still house around 200,000 people in jam-packed.

According to the Census and Statistics Department, those people are being housed in around 88,000 subdivided apartments.

These shocking pictures, which form part of a new exhibition by the Society for Community Organisation, reveal desperately cramped living spaces where toilets are feet away from chopping boards and rooms are the width of a single-bed mattress.

Because of long waits for public housing and sky-rocketing rent costs, many poor people in Hong Kong are forced to simply accept their tiny living spaces.


One occupant said 'The most difficult thing about living here is not being able to breathe in fresh air.

It’s suffocating.'



Pictured: An exterior shot of a slum in Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong, where some residents live in the tiny 'coffin apartments'







https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/jun/07/boxed-life-inside-hong-kong-coffin-cubicles-cage-homes-in-pictures?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C3551406765

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4585230/Shocking-pictures-reveal-tiny-Hong-Kong-coffin-homes.html

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

FTC for explorers thread
I swear e no easy

Yah Rasululahi, is this not the same Hong Kong a man told me recently about? The man sugar coat Hong Kong as a very sweet beautiful country as if they're alien. Let me call him now and ask if there is Ajegunle in HK too

Living room, different apartments.

Toilet and kitchen together.

From different homes.

Lalasticlalal, Mynd44

But they are enjoying steady power supply and water....

Food and a rice cooker loom over a bed.

Kids doing their homework

Toilet and kitchen together kwa? Even Naija own no reach like this.

Oh my goodness kitchen and toilet in the same "room"

Peopla washing, cooking and eating in their tiny flat.

Awwwwwww

So Sad

This is gross, I feel claustrophobic viewing the pics alone.

Jesus . Mommy come and see o. We are not poor o. We are even living large.

.

Ajegunle looks better than this. My impression of Hongkong has always been sprawling skyscrapers with beautiful landscapes. I know it took explorer great effort to dig this out. While advance countries hide their dirty linen from external eyes,country like Nigeria will do otherwise. We emphasize more on our negatives than our positives. No wonder they rate Nigeria very unsafe while a city like chicago where the rate of crime for one month is higher than that of the whole Nigeria,is declared safe. No country is perfect.

Are you FFing kidding me?

Toilet and kitchen in the same space?


No wonder Wike and Amaechi could board the same helicopter

Their own better small in some aspects...I can see they have electricity and peace of mind unlike Nigeria

Donald Trump speaks on TV while this Hong Kong tenant reads a book and others in their coffin apartments.

There is suffering all over the world, wealth is not evenly distributed. The rich keep getting richer while the poor poorer, according to Pareto Analysis, 80% of the world's wealth is in the hand of only 20%. The same Hong Kong where these people suffer is the same Hong Kong that has hundreds of Chinese multimillionaires. Even here in Nigeria, people live in worse slums. Some slums don't even have access to clean water, no electricity, the environment is so dirty that the inhabitants are susceptible to the worst kind of diseases the world has ever heard. At least their Chinese counterparts can boast of constant power supply.






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kitchen and toilet together? wa..... uh

oz4real83:
Ajegunle looks better than this. My impression of Hongkong has always been sprawling skyscrapers with beautiful landscapes.

Yes, there are two sides of countries.

That's the slum, though Asia slums are scary

What is this nah,to the extent of Toilet and Kitchen in the same room,haba!!!

Men this one is bumper to bumper. Real coffin.

See that dude in the Styrofoam like crib. I would just die. Claustrophobia is my main phobia.

I even get sick seeing people stuck in tight places on tv.

Another apartment, fresh fish can be seen on a table in the kitchen/toilet.


Another kitchen.

A duplex

ng

Explorers:



Yes, there are two sides of countries.

That's the slum, though Asia slums are scary

yes but how we treat and present both sides differs. We tend to present our slums more than our cities and that is the impression foreigners have about us

seen pictures of these homes before,
I can't even look at the pics where the kitchen and toilet are in the same place,
people are suffering

This is just inhuman

The Attention calling is intentional jare....

Shebi they can use plank to demarcate the toilet from the kitchen..... dem like am like that
joor

lovelygurl:
Oh my goodness kitchen and toilet I the same "room"

the height of it. It's terrible.

5[/img][/quote] you would do anything to disparage your country eh..This thread is about hongkong, to correct some people's impression about abroad.

Explorers:
Another apartment, fresh fish can be seen on a table in the kitchen/toilet.


Another kitchen.

I've seen this pictures before.. The suffering is everywhere..