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The houses are not more than four square meters and in them the bathroom, the kitchen and a minimum space to sleep are crammed. Photos: Benny Lam / Society for Community Organization (SOCO),
Some with more possibilities have a television in their home. Photos: Benny Lam / Society for Community Organization (SOCO),
Children playing in a coffin house. Photos: Benny Lam / Society for Community Organization (SOCO),
Many times the people who live in these homes have almost no space to live. Photos: Benny Lam / Society for Community Organization (SOCO),
diamonddave606
Even with so little space available, I understand the rental space cost is high - is that correct?
SerialChickenLover
I feel like this is the future of living in the U.S. not because we don’t have the space, but because we don’t have the money.
Pirox07
Malinut
Landlord: "Everything you own will be easily at hand."
MauroChanique
all
rjohannsen
Beautiful. That's a Samsung reshiterator stove combo.
Cerebralvomit
MauroChanique
Irony? Be careful what you wish for =)
Snooj
Not to be confused with the toilet/washing machine combo.
Snuffdigit
Is it strange that the idea of living in a very small space is actually super appealing to me? Not so much the poverty aspect.
AxelPale
Why to consume a lot when you can do well with little. Maybe not this little but still.
PyroAvok
People do that, but they're not crammed in with a bunch of other people like factory chickens.
AxellTheDragon
Weren't these photos taken in the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City?
phoenixaddams
Nah Kowloon was a vastly different animal with streets and restaurants and stolen electricity and its own pseudo government
phoenixaddams
Nah Kowloon was a vastly different animal with streets and restaurants and stolen electricity and its own pseudo government
charliegrs
No Kowloon was demolished in 93
phoenixaddams
Nah Kowloon was a vastly different animal with streets and restaurants and stolen electricity and its own pseudo government
DrKonrad
This does not look easy to clean. Toilet 20 cm from where you cook? That's a big no
paddenstoel
I wouldn't have kids if they had to live there.
MauroChanique
I have my own house. And the country I live in (Argentina) does not make me want to be a father = /
DontTazeMeBrah
Good news, not having kids helps save the planet. Apparently they have a huge ecological footprint.
MauroChanique
Thank you! here, bad policies, social problems, economic problems, crime, lack of moral values, etc.
WhattaYaLookingFor
This is the future billionaires want. Worker bees in hives. They understood, that we can’t consume goods, so everything will be rent based.
MauroChanique
interesting your point. real.
SerialChickenLover
It actually takes work to build products that people want to consume. It doesn’t take as much work to exploit a necessity.
yacko69
https://media3.giphy.com/media/6ozwFj8FgXGAo/200.gif
AxelPale
On the other hand, people who live with little, save the environment and consume less.
SomeFukinWizard
If we dont do something, America will be like this soon. No wonder some of these people are "laying Down"
Snooj
Seems like communal toilets would free up a lot of space.
Zunderfeuer
Those probably are the communal toilets in many cases
sirkekes
eat bugs, live in a pod, be happy
MauroChanique
=)
Cerebralvomit
So I guess there is no room for toilet bowl cleaner? I'm sorry. I know this is serious but please don't shit where you eat.. literally.
rangervern
I thought the same thing. Supply chain problem?
Totallycasual
I think the whole point of the post is that they have no option, having said that, i'd at least cover the fucking thing so it isn't open.
MauroChanique
Your government has the resources to give them a decent roof. 1.42 b inhabitants can help 200k
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Cerebralvomit
I meanwho the hell WANTS to live in a coffin house?It's deplorable! But there's a bed, toilet, sink and cooker, better than homeless I guess
Cerebralvomit
IKR?! I know they have no option. It's deplorable! I can't believe I am saying this..it's better than homeless I guess.And yes! Cover it up!
MauroChanique
The point was to value what one has. according to my point. It is sad that a country like China does not help the poorest to get ahead.
OnePostCloserToAHappierLIfe
And I worry more and more that this is where we're headed.
Aaronb1138
More than the sleeping pods in Singapore... Shit places the poor should abandon.
FrenchPudding
I remember living in a 9m flat when I started college, it was very difficult to manage so I can't even fathom how suffocating this must feel
exileut
10ft by 10ft seems a bit small, I am in 20 by 20 now and it is too large. half the space is just empty. I think 18m2 would be perfect,
gypsyspot
I lived in a 2ft x 2ft. Way too much space. Thinking about downsizing.
gypsyspot
I lived in a 2ft x 2ft. Way too much space. Thinking about downsizing.
DontTazeMeBrah
Are you the size of an ant?
gypsyspot
I lived in a 2ft x 2ft. Way too much space. Thinking about downsizing.
gypsyspot
I lived in a 2ft x 2ft. Way too much space. Thinking about downsizing.
gypsyspot
I lived in a 2ft x 2ft. Way too much space. Thinking about downsizing.
gypsyspot
I lived in a 2ft x 2ft. Way too much space. Thinking about downsizing.
PUNKem733
How the fuck do you even sit on the toilet? Also the fecal spray from flushing is all over the food and cooking area, YUCK!!!!
MauroChanique
a mistake and say goodbye to your life. That is to live with anxiety.
SaturnineCult
I don't know what kind of toilet you have, but mine certainly doesn't have any "fecal spray".
PUNKem733
Google is your friend https://wb.md/3oLI7b3 That's right many people flush and have their toothbrushes a few feet from the toilet lol
SaturnineCult
Yeah, like someone farts in the next room and you're obviously breathing pure shit into your lungs. No.
PUNKem733
So that article and the 50 others are all BS, got it! You sound like an intelligent person.
SaturnineCult
Yeah you have been breathing too much of that fecal spray. You should at least brush your teeth, you filthy bastard.
AgamemnonsMemes
Every time you flush there is a 'plume' of mist that spreads throughout the room, ALWAYS put the lid down.
SaturnineCult
No there's no fecal matter spraying over my room. Your toilet works wrong.
DanCutter
“At last they’re not homeless” comes to mind, even though these conditions suck donkey balls. Still… why the fuck bring children into this?
Lastluke
The wonderful dystopia of the modern world.
DYLANLEE79
4 square meters is 43 square feet.
TakeTheStairs
4 square meters, not 4 meters squared
polarbearbaby
Jesus. My bedroom is 120 sqft.
Fengor
$1200/month first 3 months up front, $500 deposit, a personal reference from the Pope, and 1L of blood kept in escrow on the blockchain.
davegsm82
Thanks, Conversionbo.... oh, wait.
Baggsy13
4 sq m could be 2m x 2m = 6'6" x 6'6'' or 1.5m x 2.6667m = 4' 11" x 8' 9" or 1.2m x 3.28m = 4' x 10' 9" .
Lurch1911
So roughly 6’x7’
otherJeffsarefalseJeffs
That’s a hair bigger than a king sized bed. I can’t imagine living in such cramped quarters
MPinky
1m = 3ft~ so 12x12 = 144ft. That's damn tiny still.
MauroChanique
known as ‘coffin houses’, measuring only 15 square feet (4 square meters), because it is impossible for them to pay the high rental prices.
akahata
Is the whole of Hongkong that expensive or only the main island?
murd0c1
That's 1.39 sq meters, not 4
MauroChanique
source error I took the news. my mistake. thanks =)
TakeTheStairs
more like 1.39 m squared. 4 square meters could be 1x4 or 2x2
murd0c1
TIL, I'm not a math magician. Thanks for the correction, I actually didn't know this.
Loghrif
If time machine is invented first thing to do is go back find idiot that decided to use imperial units and bitch slap him into metric!
cjandstuff
When people talk about turning dead malls into micro-apartments, this is the future I see.
ItSeemsYouHaveSufferedaTerribleFate
Welcome to my wonderful world of bed sores, sciatica, scoliosis, and much more!
fiorideiliberi11
All I see is the dirty toilet. Why the heck didn't they clean it before the photographer came? But sad, so sad,?
MauroChanique
I will go urgently to clean my toilet, what a shame.
MauroChanique
the comment that made me laugh the most. you must be obsessive about cleanliness. ;-)
fiorideiliberi11
Not obsessed at all ?, but I mean those are basics, no?
vioveo
What really makes me sad is, these don't even make sense from an architectural standpoint. It would make more sense to take the toilet 1/2
vioveo
and maybe even stove out and put them in communal areas. They could have designed it more like a college dorm or a capsule hotel, which 2/3
vioveo
would have given residents a bit more room and comfort and might have been even easier to maintain. There's no way these things are 3/4
vioveo
getting enough airflow. Between that and all the moisture that must be present, most of these are probably covered in mold and grease.
AgamemnonsMemes
Most of these are converted from apartments or hotels, they just keep adding walls to make more rooms.
HeyQueef
This is terrible but why if you live in a Tupperware would you bang a girl from shoe box so baby can live in a pez dispenser
charliegrs
My guess is wayyyy more people in this world are accident babies than their parents would like to admit
sdfsfsfsgs
Because sex and having kids shouldn't be limited to wealthy people.
shinagami091
Ok sure. But if you’re living in that situation one has to ask themselves, is that worth it?
sdfsfsfsgs
Ask the kid.
MauroChanique
the child would probably say ... 嗨，我是你的儿子，虽然妈妈说我爸爸是你的兄弟。
sdfsfsfsgs
go back to 4chan
shayke7
Is it common in Hong Kong, and why?
MauroChanique
Hong Kong economic crisis forces 200,000 people to live in coffin houses. 225 USD monthly
IJustReallyLikeFrogs
Funny. I could have sworn I saw these pictures ten years ago too.
TheKoolAidMans
yeah their economic crisis is on going like for 20 years or longer, if nobody trys to fix something like this it doesn't magically go away.
bananaforscale1958
Because it has the highest housing rental prices in the world - and there isn't enough public housing to help people who live like this
PeterPanGuineaPig
HK's population is 7.4mil, so a small % live like this. But it's very expensive and getting worse, kinda like a sci-fi metropolis dystopia
PyroAvok
Looks like the hab pods in Deus Ex.
MrZev
Only 1.1% of hourly wage people in the make 7.25 an hour, but it's still an issue none the less.
MauroChanique
Big nation big problems
crateo
HK is super small xD
Asteroidrules
Extremely high population density makes for extremely high property values.
Mavgurian
These conditions exist everywhere for a percentage of people to a degree. This post smells of Chinese propaganda really.
MauroChanique
Here I smell a lot of aggressiveness. It is just to become aware of what is going on out there. No fights =)
MauroChanique
the government is busy finding a place for them.
MauroChanique
In the Netherlands this does not happen, homeless people are found in homes that no one inhabits due to other circumstances.
exniceguy
HK actually has a lot of empty land that the govt won't allow people to build on. So yeah, supply and demand.
ILikeFugu
Empty here kind of means "mountains and other shit you can't really build on even if you wanted to"
neilp20063000
Let’s be fair and point out that the empty land you are talking about isn’t flat, but steep as shit mountain sides and hillsides
basiccricket8444
And by the tourist area
MauroChanique
AQUÍ HAY ALGUIEN QUE QUIERE LUCHAR CON UN Flat-Earthers
Resenate
FYI These photos were taken between 2012-2015: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/hong-kong-living-trapped-lam-photos
Ilikesimplefoodrecepies
I do not have the source, but as far as I remember this was an exceptional situation. The building(s) was distroyed and replaced by a park.
RoutemasterFlash
Yeah, people there these days can only dream of affording a spacious condo like the ones shown here.
ILikeFugu
NYC has 9M living on 800sqkm, HK is 7.5M on 1100sqkm. Sounds good until you realize 75 percent of HK is unlivable mountains and hills
PUNKem733
I've seen a lot of people live on mountain and hills. Why can't they?
ILikeFugu
It's a protected area, and also, such areas have never really been conducive to high density population settlements
basiccricket8444
It's protected
basiccricket8444
It's protected
SerialChickenLover
Have you seen Chinese engineering before?
PUNKem733
True, it's better they don't live up there lol
Crogicun
There are more factors, but a documentary i saw mentioned that a few factors are failures of the government. Two of which being that they>
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Johnsky
A 30 centimeter wide property is up for sale in Toronto for $50,000. That's one foot wide for the ammosexuals.
evangrumling5
You realize that even the leftists here use imperial? It’s not a party line thing.
teardropivyyearofthetiger
We in ?? assume “y’all” have guns despite party lines.
evangrumling5
And we assume all of you are friendly. Stereotypes aren’t accurate.
teardropivyyearofthetiger
Snooj
But is it 7 km long?
mikeatike
This one is 5 feet wide and sold for 1.3 million. wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinny_Building
PyroAvok
Ammosexuals think in metric too, ya know. 5.56x45mm, 7.62 x 51 [NATO] and 39 [CCCP]mm, 9mm, 30mm BRRRRRRRRRRRT, 7mm, etc.
Schlumpfi
not seriously. Do you have a link?
mikeatike
How long is it?
SwedeOnAnIsland
Link?
arae8
Backstreetdriver
It's literally just speculation that someone is going to buy and rebuild the place next door, needing the space. It's commercial space too
objectsubjectverb
Link to property?
Johnsky
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/vacant-piece-of-land-less-than-30-centimetres-wide-hits-the-toronto-market-and-it-s-attracting-attention-1.569442
PIPXIll
Do you have a link to this? I live in winterpeg and still think the price here for a home is crazy.
arae8
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2021/12/5/1_5694423.html
MauroChanique
Thanks! I did not understand anything. A bitcoin is worth more and it does not exist. the world upside down.
rulerofthedingdongs
I read there are three offers on it. It’s the future potential they’re banking on. But seriously, fuck real estate prices in Toronto.
putcleverusernamehere
Potential for what? All I can think of is buying it hoping a developer later needs that foot
ICreatedThisAccountToPostPicsOfMyTwoCats
And Vancouver
Johnsky
5 offers last I heard.
NKato
To be accurate: fuck real estate speculators
TinHornGeKo
AMMOSEXUALS!!
GroumphLePreux
UNITE !
TinHornGeKo
KellyCrazyCatLadyinTraining
I know, right?! I’m LMAO at that! XD
chrisormie83
Love that
OutOfMyMinds
Note: ammo size is universally metric. https://www.deviantart.com/claveworks/art/Ammunition-Size-Chart-199844276
BiologicallyHazardousMaterial
The fuck? Caliber is measured in inches. 50 cal is 0.50 inches. Mm is metric and accurately portrayed without "conversion"
ajg0000
Yup, .22, .223, .40, .45, 12gauge, all metric
BiologicallyHazardousMaterial
The fuck? Caliber is measured in inches. 50 cal is 0.50 inches. Mm is metric and accurately portrayed without "conversion"
LocketRauncher
Interestingly enough, buildings are often imperial because brick standards follow inches. Except doors, which conveniently round to 2m.
BiologicallyHazardousMaterial
The fuck? Caliber is measured in inches. 50 cal is 0.50 inches. Mm is metric and accurately portrayed without "conversion"
jridley
Why did you post the same thing four times?
BiologicallyHazardousMaterial
The fuck? Caliber is measured in inches. 50 cal is 0.50 inches. Mm is metric and accurately portrayed without "conversion"
BiologicallyHazardousMaterial
The fuck? Caliber is measured in inches. 50 cal is 0.50 inches. Mm is metric and accurately portrayed without "conversion"
BiologicallyHazardousMaterial
The fuck? Caliber is measured in inches. 50 cal is 0.50 inches. Mm is metric and accurately portrayed without "conversion"
McSkeevely
Hey i think you got the new imgur glitch where a comment posts like 5 times. Here's a notification, hope you see it before the downvotes
R100GSPD
That chart has two SAE units on it. And lots of ammo is measured by decimal inch.
akahata
„Decimal inch“ sounds like a oxymoron…
OutOfMyMinds
All accurate points, i shall turn in my gun card immediately.
MauroChanique
Sorry. I do not understand
TChallaVanDam
thevortexmaster
What part don't you get?
pharmphoxmitchell
Probably all of it
AlkeneThiol
Who would buy that
thevortexmaster
No idea
DeathdealerFox
I would guess it is to legally change the property line between neighbors, and the huge price tag is stop outside interest.
GentryFriedRichFillets
1/3rd washing machine or one medium pizza
mentallychallengeaccepted
Or my penis but 7 times
TheRealDeadBird
We talking about 1/3rd washing machine wide or tall? And we talking deep dish pizza or sicilian?
SideEffectsOfJuice
Here in Finland we don't do pizza sizes, you just have pizza and it's the size of pizza. You need to clarify further.
DoYouLikePinaColada
In Denmark there are two sizes: regular or family
SideEffectsOfJuice
Wait I totally forgot family. Maybe because I've never even heard of such a thing being bought? Lol. No idea how big that is, as a result