There are even smaller rooms known as coffin or cage homes, although they can be difficult to categorise. Hong Kong authorities have recorded about 110,000 subdivided flats in the city — a ...

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Wong, a 61-year-old Hong Kong resident, is one of a growing number of citizens forced into so-called "coffin homes," 20-square-foot cages that offer just enough space to lie down and hang a few ...

SoCO called for the new regulations to extend to “coffin” homes. “This kind of bed homes is the shame of Hong Kong,” said its deputy director, Sze Lai-shan. The Housing Bureau said the ...