Shocking Photos of Cramped Hong Kong Apartments

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A family eat dinner in their cramped apartment in Hong Kong. The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) has released a set of overhead images of low-income families, singletons, elderly and unemployed people living in urban slums to highlight the housing problem in Hong Kong. Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features


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Ho Hei-Wah, Director of SoCO, says: "Hong Kong is regarded as one of the richest cities in the world; however, lurking beneath this prosperity is also extreme poverty. Hundreds of thousands of people still live in caged homes and wood-partitioned cubicles, while the unemployed, new-arrived families from China and children in poverty struggle for survival."
Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features

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"By taking these photos of inadequate housing we want to arouse public and government concern over the issue. These people have to afford an expensive rent rate; it equals to approximately
£6-7.50 per square foot per month and sometimes have to wait years for public rental housing because there are so few in Hong Kong." Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features


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The smallest apartment the Society of Community Organisation visited was 28 square feet, rented by an unemployed single man.
Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features

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The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) was formed in 1971 by a group of people who campaigned for a fair social system.
Through the promotion of civil rights and organising affected people, they fight for people's rights and equality for all members of society.
Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features


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Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features

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Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features

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Picture: Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex Features

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