Boxed in: life inside the 'coffin cubicles' of Hong Kong
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'I'm still alive and yet I am already surrounded by four coffin planks! · Cage homes are minuscule rooms lived in by the poorest people in the ... Skiptomaincontent Advertisement Boxedin:lifeinsidethe'coffincubicles'ofHongKong–inpictures CoffincubiclesinHongKong. Photograph:BennyLam/SoCo ‘I’mstillaliveandyetIamalreadysurroundedbyfourcoffinplanks!’…HongKong’scagehometenants.Allphotographs:BennyLam Facebook Twitter Cagehomesareminusculeroomslivedinbythepoorestpeopleinthecity.Overthelast10years,thenumberofcagehomesmadeofwiremeshhasdecreased,butthey’vebeenreplacedbybedssealedwithwoodenplanks Facebook Twitter Thesesmall,woodenboxesof15sqft,areknownas‘coffincubicles’ Facebook Twitter A400sqftflatcanbesubdividedtoaccommodatenearly20double-deckersealedbedspaces Facebook Twitter Advertisement Thetenantsaredifferentagesandsexes–allunabletoaffordasmallcubicle,whichwouldallowmoreroomtostandup Facebook Twitter Akitchen-toiletcomplexinacagehome Facebook Twitter ThephotographshighlighttherealityofHongKong’shousingcrisis,wheretensofthousandsofpeopleliveinthesecrampedconditionsbecausetheycan’taffordanythingelse Facebook Twitter ManycagehomeresidentsawaketothecruelrealitythatalltheshimmerandprosperityofHongKongisoutofreach Facebook Twitter Anestimated100,000peopleinHongKongliveininadequatehousing,accordingtotheSocietyforCommunityOrganisation(SoCO) Facebook Twitter ThesephotographsweretakenforSoCO,anNGOfightingforpolicychangesanddecentlivingstandardsinthecity Facebook Twitter BennyLam’sseriesTrappedwasshortlistedforthePrixPictet2017 Facebook Twitter Topics Cities HongKong Housing AsiaPacific Communities Poverty Socialexclusion Moregalleries Viewallcomments> Orderby newest oldest recommendations Show25 25 50 100 All Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded Loadingcomments…Troubleloading? Viewmorecomments Mostpopular Close
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- 1Inside Hong Kong's cage homes - YouTube
- 2Bedspace apartment - Wikipedia
A bedspace apartment (Chinese: 牀位寓所), also called cage home (籠屋), coffin cubicle, or coffin home,...
- 3Hong Kong's cage homes are almost impossible to self- ...
Cage homes are usually smaller than 100 square feet, only 25 square feet larger than most of the ...
- 4'Cage Homes' in Hong Kong a Stark Reminder of Its Inequities
Residential units clustered tightly together in an apartment complex in the Quarry Bay area of Ho...
- 5Cage Homes and Old Private Housing Project - SoCO
There is a serious shortage of housing supply in Hong Kong. More than 200,000 grassroots citizen ...
