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Is Hong Kong’s drive to eliminate substandard housing doing more harm than good?
Is Hong Kong’s drive to eliminate substandard housing doing more harm than good?
Housewife May and her three children were overjoyed last September when they moved into a 200 sq ft subdivided flat in Kwai Tsing, a Hong Kong district with one of the city’s lowest average monthly household incomes. For years, the 50-year-old single parent had lived in a squatter hut with her son and two daughters, where they had to climb hundreds of stairs daily. They later moved into a 100 sq…