You’ve never seen a “coffin room” in Hong Kong and you don’t even know you’re living in a villa.

What is your impression of Hong Kong?

A prosperous international metropolis with skyscrapers

A Hong Kong drama about famous aristocrats, Lan Kwai Fong

Expensive sports cars? Famous fashion brands, high-end restaurants?

The introduction of Hong Kong in Baidu Encyclopedia is as follows

Hong Kong is an important international and Asia-Pacific region

one of the most competitive shipping hubs and cities

The economic freedom index ranks first in the world for 21 consecutive years

Hong Kong is known for its excellent public security, free economy,

and sound legal system.

Known as the "Pearl of the Orient", "Food Paradise" and "Shopping Paradise"

It is also one of the richest, most economically developed and highest living standards areas in the world. .

(Rich District of Hong Kong)

But behind Hong Kong’s prosperity and brilliance,

there are some realities that people cannot bear to touch.

But what you don’t know is that

In Hong Kong, the highest rent is not in Central

It’s not the luxury houses in Repulse Bay

but in the whole of Hong Kong The poorest among the 18 districts

——Sham Shui Po

Hidden in the darkness of the streets and alleys of Sham Shui Po

are called cage houses and subdivided houses. Coffin House Accommodation

The maximum rent per square foot (about 0.09 square meters) here can reach 300 Hong Kong dollars

There are about 200,000 Hong Kong residents

Living in this kind of "house" every day

It is a place where the sun cannot illuminate

The real meaning of living in a small house is probably nothing more than this

After a day of running and hard work

These residents returned to such a "home"

Subdivided room

Refers to the kitchen, bedroom, and living room. Heyi

The area is usually less than 8㎡

The rent is about RMB 2,500~4,000/month

劏: means to cut

劏 Houses generally refer to housing units

cut into very small parts

rented to multiple families, similar to group rentals in the Mainland

Nearly 200,000 people Living in a subdivided room

The per capita living area is 5.7 square meters

It is only 27% more than the per capita standard of the Correctional Services Department prison cell

< p> This is the prosperous Hong Kong that countless people yearn for

We have seen the luxurious and exquisite Hong Kong in Hong Kong dramas

Bunk beds, small sofas, refrigerators

Washing machines and Small table

These daily items make the already small space

seem very crowded, costing HKD 4,500 per month

(approximately RMB 4,000)

p>

A family of four living in a subdivided house

The sister and brother are lying on the bed doing homework

Below are their parents

Apartment The toilet and kitchen are connected together

It is extremely depressing

Moreover, there are about

40,000 children living in Hong Kong for a long time

In such a bad environment

In the movie "A Thought of No Clear" which won multiple awards at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards

The father played by Eric Tsang and

his son who suffers from bipolar disorder live in a subdivided house

The scene of "One Thought of Ignorance"

was filmed in a subdivided house The drama lasted for more than ten days

Eric Tsang told the media: Living in a subdivided house

"No matter how open-minded people are, they will gradually become unbearable

(In the drama ) I'm lucky enough to have a window in my room

Many rooms don't even have windows.

”

Coffin room

The area is less than 4㎡, and the smallest one is only 1.4㎡

Only one bed can be placed, and people can only lie down

The rent is about RMB 1,600~3,200 per month

When the horizontal space can no longer be developed

Landlords have turned their attention to the vertical space

Coffin This is how houses evolved

In Yau Ma Tei, Sham Shui Po, and Kwun Tong

Some people sleep in "coffins" every night

In the original cubicles On the basis of a house

divided up and down in the shape of "well"

converted into six small rooms

Each room is about 1.5 square meters

< p> The rent is about HKD 1,500-2,000 per month

Due to the small location

After entering the room, I could only lie down straight

It was like lying in a coffin. Named "Coffin Room"

It's not even as good as a coffin, because here

You can't even straighten your legs when you "lay the body" every night...

The tenants of the coffin room are all different

The only thing that is the same

is that they all cannot afford it

A room where you can stand up

< p> I have no choice but to live the life of an "ant"

Here, the concept of home is completely subverted

Everything can only be curled up in this place

Conducted on a small bed

Photographer Benny Lam

Experience the real "coffin room"

They said: I am not dead yet

There are already four coffin boards!

Cage House

The building on the roof is called a "rooftop house"

The price is relatively cheap

The disadvantage is that it rains, leaks, and is sultry in summer

Rooms in industrial and commercial buildings are converted into residential buildings

They are called "mansion houses"

Rent It is cheap and has an elevator, but it is easy to be investigated

In addition, there is also a kind of accommodation called "cage house"

Cage house first appeared in the 1950s

It is a temporary accommodation for immigrants

Beds wrapped with wires

turned into habitable cage houses

Most of them exist in Sham Shui Po

Residents living in iron cages are called "cage dwellers"

In a 70-square-meter room

there are dozens of The three-story iron cage

houses more than 200 people

The air is filled with the smell of tobacco, sweat

and old houses

"Cage houses" are located in old buildings in Sham Shui Po

The residents are usually new immigrants or the elderly

The United Nations has condemned living in cage houses

It is an extreme insult to human dignity!

Cage residents laugh at themselves

It’s good to have a place to shelter from the rain

Talk about human dignity

Many poor people in Hong Kong apply for public welfare The house is still not working after three years

Cage houses are a special living phenomenon

None of the residents are homeless

They just rent them at the lowest rent One bed

Protected from wind and rain, no place to stay

It is said that a tenant has lived in a "cage house" for more than 40 years

In recent years, the cage house The rent has skyrocketed

A few years ago it was HK$1,500

Now it has soared to HK$2,800

Most cage house dwellers

Can only live on a little CSSA money

Hong Kong is one of the most prosperous cities in the world

The number of luxury brand LV counter stores

is higher than that in Paris More! But there are still people

living in small and depressing cage houses

Toilet room

Earlier there was a rent spread on the Internet

Photo of the house advertisement

The monthly rent is 2,200 Hong Kong dollars

The rental is located in a tenement building, with a bed above and a toilet below

The upper bed is about 0.76 meters wide

And there is a toilet and toilet under the bed

Speaking of Hong Kong housing prices

The unit price does not seem amazing

In the suburbs, it is about more than 10,000 yuan

p>

The urban area is only 40,000 to 50,000 yuan

It seems to be comparable to cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen

You can take a closer look

The unit price It turns out to be square feet

Yes, 1 square meter is equal to 9 square feet

Multiply the unit price by 9

This is the price that mainlanders usually think of< /p>

Buying a house? Don’t talk about this life, there is no hope for the next life!

Pictures and reference sources: Round trip, Hong Kong True Story, Benny Lam, Kin Cheung

Under night

Central office buildings and ordinary people's houses

***Cun

Just like Hong Kong, where the gap between rich and poor is extreme

Regarding Hong Kong’s “coffin room”

Relevant interviews conducted by BBC documentary Report

The night sky

The neon lights are colorful and beautiful

Many people go for a walk in Hong Kong

Passing by Central and Tsim Sha Tsui

I thought Hong Kong was like this

Everything is luxurious and exquisite

Only if you have experienced it can you feel the same

and everything around you** * Only those who have lived together can understand what "sour, astringent, and bitter" is

And stories like this happen every day

Villages in the city, with plywood partitions Rental house opened... . .

Sometimes we always think that others are living a good life

We feel that other people’s lives must be better than ours

But " There are many places you don’t know

Have you ever thought about the dark corners? You are very happy”