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Mr Chan and his neighbours are among Hong Kong's thousands of rooftop slum dwellers, pushed to the top of old apartment buildings because they cannot afford the spaces below. Image caption ...
On May 21, 2022, construction broke ground on an ambitious project in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City, turning the infamous slum into an enormous low-income housing development with the goal of ...
In Hong Kong the project Tai Hang was re-built by demolishing slums. Are you following their footsteps? Tai Hang developed, but it was a much smaller project than Dharavi. Hong Kong was different ...
“These are effectively slums and the landlords are slumlords,” said Brian Wong, a researcher at the Liber Research Community, an independent group in Hong Kong focused on land use and urban issue ...
Lai said he became an odd jobs man at a textile factory, making 60 Hong Kong dollars ($7) a month and living in an apartment with 10 others in the slum neighborhood of Sham Shui Po – still one ...
Hong Kong's Basic Law enshrines a principle of ‘one country, two systems' designed to afford the city a high degree of autonomy -- including its own government structure and judiciary -- until 2047.