Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes

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When houses are the size of parking spaces, a coffin cubicle, or coffin home, is a type of residence only large enough for one bunk bed surrounded by a metal cage. In Hong Kong, roughly 53,200 individuals lived in cage dwellings in 2007. The Sham Shui Po, Mong Kok, To Kwa Wan, and Tai Kok Tsui neighbourhoods are examples of this form of home that developed in Hong Kong.

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