Watch: Hong Kong Locals’ Poor Living Conditions Inside Tiny Cubicles Called ‘Coffin Homes’
6 months ago

Watch: Hong Kong Locals’ Poor Living Conditions Inside Tiny Cubicles Called ‘Coffin Homes’

News 18  

Due to the growing global population, there is a shortage of residential land, particularly in cities with both development and active communities. Recently, a video from Hong Kong highlighting the issue of poor living conditions has gone viral. The space constraints in Hong Kong have become so severe that some residents live in a 15-square-foot wooden ‘coffin home’, named after their coffin-like shape. Surprisingly, even the rent for these tiny spaces with such poor living conditions exceeds Rs 20,000 in Indian currency. Hong Kong’s coffin homes have a reputation for danger and filth, sheltering convicted criminals and drug abusers.

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Hong Kong’s COVID toll leads some to eco-friendlier coffins
2 years, 9 months ago

Hong Kong’s COVID toll leads some to eco-friendlier coffins

Associated Press  

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak has cost about 6,000 lives this year – and the city is now running out of coffins. Space constraints make cremation a common burial practice in the densely populated island territory off the Chinese mainland, and the coffins typically are wood or wood substitutes. “So it gives more than enough sufficient choices …

‘Dead Space’: Photographer captures Hong Kong’s dense hillside cemeteries
5 years, 3 months ago

‘Dead Space’: Photographer captures Hong Kong’s dense hillside cemeteries

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — Endless rows of stone slabs line Hong Kong’s hillsides. For his new photo series “Dead Space,” photographer Finbarr Fallon visited nearly all of the city’s cemeteries, capturing the sheer density of graves and the mountainous urban terrain surrounding them. Intrigued by how the limits of physical space can shape how we live and die, he made …

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