Chinese ant houses
Does it seem to you that you have a small and small apartment? Do you lack square meters? At that time you were not in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is considered to be one of the most expensive in the world, and about 50% of its population does not live in the best conditions. The total area of a standard apartment for 5 people is 25-28 square meters. The queue for social housing in Hong Kong costs over 100 thousand people.
For almost two decades, embodying a truly Eastern subtlety and grace, embedded in the thin and ornate high-rise buildings, Hong Kong overshadows, in the construction of the world's tallest buildings, its most famous competitors in Tokyo, New York, Singapore, London, San Francisco, and is an unsurpassed record in the category "the largest number of skyscrapers.
They stand not only on the mainland, but also on artificially created embankments, built on the territories conquered by the sea.
There are 294 skyscrapers over 150 meters high.
Of course, Hong Kongers are building their city upwards "not from a good life": the acute land shortage with a rapidly growing population is a problem of the metropolis.
Hong Kong is the most densely populated city in the world. Lack of land makes it necessary to occupy the coastal area for construction. Even skyscrapers are built on artificially created embankments.
Buying high quality crushed stone is not a problem here.
Such extreme conditions have helped Hong Kong to become a world leader in the technology of building reliable high-rise concrete structures.
Hong Kong is a huge overpopulated concrete city. The city is huge, you need to travel by subway between the parks. From the roof of an apartment building somewhere in Mong Coke, you should try very hard to notice at least one tree among the concrete landscape.
Access to the roof in state houses is often open. And not because Hong Kong attracts open roofs photographers-ruffers, but because the rooftops also live people!
Almost half of Hong Kong residents live in so-called social buildings and enjoy various kinds of housing subsidies. Renting a house in such houses is cheaper than in the private sector. In addition, it is subsidized from the income received from the rental of land and premises for parking lots and stores in the social buildings themselves and in their immediate vicinity.
The record real estate price reflects the high demand for office space in downtown Hong Kong, which is one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world.
Hong Kong is considered one of the most expensive cities in the world; however, behind its prosperity there is also incredible poverty.
If a young family buys a house in Hong Kong, the apartment area is not asked. They only ask for the price. Housing is so expensive that many live in the literal sense of two square meters.
Half a million dollars for 17 square meters.
House for a mosquito, as the nickname of these apartments, the area is close to our standard parking space. But such a "house" costs almost 4 million Hong Kong dollars, or 516 thousand US dollars.
Those, who do not have money for their own apartment, agree with their own cage. Maybe it is tight, but 130 dollars a year. A simple proletarian can afford it. This is not 1380 per month for a microscopic studio apartment.
It is not customary to talk about living in a cage. It is possible to live in a cage and work on a supposedly prestigious job - for example, in a bank. If employees find out where you really live, they will laugh, even if they themselves secretly live in such a cage.
People sleep in one corner, eat in the other, and store their things in the third. And if you are lucky, in the fourth corner there will be a TV, and then you can get distracted after a long day at work.
In the same time, the Concrete Jungle of Hong Kong increases the radiation.
To solve the problem of housing shortage, Hong Kong plans to create artificial islands to build houses on their territory.
Artificial islands with an area of 688 hectares will be located to the east of Lantau Island, the largest in Hong Kong. In the future from 260 thousand to 400 thousand houses will be built here to accommodate up to 1.1 million people, which corresponds to 15% of Hong Kong's population. Work on the islands will begin in 2025, and by 2032, Hong Kong residents will be able to start moving to new homes.
Thanks for the info, I didn't know anything about this.