香港居住條件如此惡劣，聯合國認為是對人的尊嚴的侮辱

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And you thought housing in your city was bad: Inside Hong Kong's 'coffin homes' that are so cramped the UN

has branded them 'an insult to human dignity'

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  • Skyrocketing rental prices have driven Hong Kong residents into rooftop shacks, cages and coffin homes
  • Images show the degrading conditions, including combined toilets and kitchens and tiny bunk beds
  • The United Nations have condemned the conditions in the makeshift homes as 'an insult to human dignity' 
  • Single mother of two, Li Suet-wen, pays AUD$785 (USD$580, £447) for 120-square-foot one-room 'shoebox'
  • Rental prices in Hong Kong have soared 50 percent in past five years, now world's most unaffordable market

 

By Nelson Groom for Daily Mail Australia and Ap



Hong Kong residents, who only gave their surname, Lam, top left, Wan, top right, and Kitty Au, pose at their "coffin homes" 

 

Li Suet-wen and her son, 6, and daughter, 8, live in a 120-square foot room crammed with a bunk bed, small couch, fridge, washing machine and small table in an aging walkup in Hong Kong

 

In wealthy Hong Kong, there's a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, "coffin homes" and other "inadequate housing

 

A set of grimy toilets and single sink shared by the coffin home's two dozen inhabitants, including a few single women

 

A five year-old boy plays outside his tiny home which is made of concrete and corrugated metal on the terrace of a apartment block as he lives with his parents in an illegal rooftop

 

Housing unaffordability remains Hong Kong's biggest social problem

 

Single mother of two, Li Suet-wen, pays AUD$785 (USD$580, ?447) for a 120-square-foot one-room 'shoebox' cubicle

 

Tse Chu, a retired waiter, sleeps in his 'coffin home,' a property which has been condemned by The United Nations as 'an insult to human dignity'

 

Cheung Chi-fong, 80, sleeps in his tiny "coffin home" where he cannot stretch out his legs

 

A resident who only gave his surname Sin, 55, tidies up the bed in his "coffin home"

 

A resident walks outside his illegal rooftop hut where is located next to a public housing estate