0.5평짜리 골방에서 20년째 사는 홍콩 남성 Hong Kong residents forced to live in tiny bunkers after property prices skyrocket by 50 per cent: VIDEO

Would YOU live in a 'coffin home' to beat the housing crisis? 

Hong Kong residents forced to live in tiny bunkers after property prices skyrocket by 50 per cent

Wong Ziwa (pictured) lives in one of these tiny low-ceiling abodes that he calls home

• Huge rents in Hong Kong have seen more people living in 'coffin' homes 
• Homes are tiny and are just 20 square feet in size with low ceilings 
• United Nations has described such housing as 'an insult to human dignity' 
• But residents can't afford the sky high rents and has to make do with these 

알다시피 홍콩의 집값은 어마어마하다.

커핀홈

관짝처럼 좁은 집을 의미한다.

홍콩에 사는 윙 지와(Wong Ziwa,61)씨는 이런 집에서 20년째 살아왔다.

그는 1,750홍콩달러(한화 26만원)를 월세로 지불하고 있지만 방의 크기나 상태를 보면

그리 싼 것도 아니다.

그가 여기에 살 수 밖에 없는 이유는 홍콩의 집값이 천정부지로 치솟고 있기 때문이다

홍콩의 아파트값은 한평당(3.3m2) 5,800만원이나 한다. 이는 홍콩시민 연간 소득의 11배에 

달한다.

현재 홍콩 전체 토지의 7%만이 주거지역으로 개발되어 있다.

윙 지와씨는 "이곳에서 언제 벗어날지 기약없다"며 공공주택 신청을 2년 전에 했지만 아직 

감감소식이다.

이제는 희망도 없이 막연하게 기다리고 있다.

홍콩정부에 의하면 약 20만명이 커핀홈에서 살고 있다고 한다.

정부는 대규모 공공주택을 건설해 집부족문제를 해결하겠다고 하지만 이를 곧이 듣는 사람들은 별로 없다.

황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터

Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor

By Reuters and John Carney for Daily Mail Australia

PUBLISHED: 01:31 GMT, 31 January 2017 | UPDATED: 04:13 GMT, 31 January 2017

Skyrocketing rental prices in Hong Kong have seen more people living in 'coffin homes' measuring just 1.9 square metres in size as that is all people can afford there.

The likes of Wong Ziwa lives in one of these tiny low-ceiling abodes that he calls home.

The United Nations has described such housing as 'an insult to human dignity', but Mr Wong can't afford the sky high rents and has to make do with this. 

Mr Wong (pictured) said it was two years since he applied for public housing, but he 'still hasn't heard back'

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Home prices have increased nearly 50 per cent since 2012 in Kong Kong, making the property there one of the most unaffordable in the world.

Many apartments have been subdivided to create tiny 'coffin' homes to meet the demand for such housing.

Mr Wong, who pays US$226 ($300) in monthly rent, has lived in caged homes for more than twenty years - small caged homes are what people lived in before the 'coffin' homes became more prevalent there.

'It's been two years since I applied for public housing, but I still haven't heard back. How long am I going to wait? I don't even know,' Mr Wong said.

Mr Wong (pictured) lives in a 'coffin' home because it's all he can afford

 

More than seven million people call Hong Kong home. 

The government plans to build 460,000 apartments over the next decade. 

But social worker Sze Lai Shan says shorter term policies are needed to deal with the housing crisis.

Mr Shan, a social worker with the Society for Community Organisation, says: 'Living in a very tiny space with polluted air and simple surroundings.

'They don't even have enough room to stretch their legs and such tight spaces may have many psychological and social impacts.'

The number of residents living in tiny spaces like Wong's total nearly 200,000 according to the government - but Sze believes the real number is much higher. 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4174002/Poor-Hong-Kong-people-live-coffin-homes.html#ixzz4XLpfvSLS 
 

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