Hong Kong, globally recognized for its immense wealth and the world's most expensive real estate, harbors a severe and growing housing crisis that disproportionately affects its low-income residents. While the city displays extraordinary prosperity, thousands of its poor are forced to live in desperately inadequate conditions. These include notorious "cage homes" (small wire mesh enclosures stacked in apartments), "coffin homes" (tiny wooden cubicles that are often too small to fully stretch out in), and makeshift dwellings on dangerous rooftops.
This stark reality means that many residents wake up daily in cramped, subhuman spaces, looking out upon a cityscape of affluence that remains tragically out of their reach, highlighting one of the most significant wealth and equality gaps in the developed world.
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