Hk Coffin Homes

The people forced to live in homes the size of a coffin in the world s most expensive city a casket sized sleeping space costs hundreds of pounds a month and the bed bugs are free.

Hk coffin homes. Subscribe to our youtube channel for more videos. After their marriage they lived in smithville where they made their home jack worked for whitaker cable from 1957 to 1986 j b. Our simple online planner is designed specifically to provide you a way to begin pre planning your funeral now so your loved ones don t have to later. Tung wah coffin home is a coffin home located upon the hill above sandy bay on hong kong island in hong kong.

The tung wah group of hospitals then took over the responsibility of managing the coffin home and it was rebuilt in. 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. Around 200 000 people in hong kong are estimated to live in close to 88 000 ultra small coffin homes which the un has condemned as an insult to human dignity. Hong kong s coffin homes have a reputation for danger and filth sheltering convicted criminals and drug abusers and in my short time i saw roughly a quarter of the people regularly using drugs.

The history of tung wah coffin home began in 1875 when it was built by the man mo temple the coffin home was originally located in kennedy town near a slaughterhouse. Wong tat ming 63 sits in his coffin home which is next to a set of grimy toilets in hong kong as he pays hk 2 400 310 a month for a compartment measuring three feet by six feet on march 28. The coffin homes of hong kong. 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.

Sky s alex crawford speaks to some of the people forced to live in homes the size of a coffin in hong kong. But residents have no choice.