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Thousands of people queued outside Hong Kong Government House to visit the official residence and office of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Sunday, the third Open Day since Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying took over the residence.
Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes
When houses are the size of parking spaces.
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Hong Kong is the most expensive housing market in the world. It has been ranked as the least affordable housing market on Earth for eight years in a row, and the price per square foot seems to be only going up. The inflated prices are forcing Hongkongers to squeeze into unconventionally small spaces that can affect their quality of life.
Tens of thousands of Hongkongers are living in spaces that range from 75 to 140 square feet. To put that in perspective, the average parking space in the US is about 150 square feet. And in the most extreme cases, Hongkongers have resorted to homes the size of a coffin.
I spent some time exploring the living situation in Hong Kong to find out why housing has become so expensive and spaces so tight.
To understand how Hong Kong’s housing market turned out this way and see how it’s affecting people’s lives, watch the final episode of Borders Hong Kong.
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Bruce Lee’s former mansion in Hong Kong torn down to make way for Chinese studies centre
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Kung fu legend Bruce Lee's old home in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong has been demolished to make way for a Chinese studies centre.
Developers said they discovered structural problems in the building that made maintaining it unfeasible.
The Yu Pang-lin Charitable Trust, which owns the building, said a mosaic left by Bruce Lee would be retained on a wall outside the mansion, and that four window frames from the two-storey building will be preserved.
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Princess Sees Hong Kong (1961)
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Princess Alexandra tours Hong Kong.
L/S of harbour and cliffs. M/S of Government House, Princess Alexandra walks up steps with Governor Sir Robert Black and the press photographers take pictures of her. Various C/U's of the Princess as she walks along. L/S of the university, various shots as she meets students on the roof and chats to them. C/U of her walking along. L/S of Kowloon and bay. Her car drives through the streets and she waves, people watch her.
M/S of Tai Po market town, a sign made from flowers reads 'Welcome to Princess Alexandra'. M/S of woman in a big hat. Various shots as the Princess visits San Wai and sits down to watch children of Gurkha riflemen doing a display of traditional dancing. L/S of Shek Kong, the Princess meets wives and babies of married servicemen of the Gurkha Royal regiments, Northumberland Fusiliers and Royal Warwickshire regiment there. Various shots as she chats to them. M/S of sign in flowers reading 'Pat Heung', the place she is visiting next. Various shots as she watches someone dance under an ornate eastern lion costume, another man bangs a gong. The Princess watches the lion.
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This time last year, as Chris Patten prepared to leave his home in Government House and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) were waiting to drive across the border into Hong Kong, many feared that under Chinese rule Hong Kong would lose its freedoms, rule of law, and openness. But one year on, instead of putting tanks on the streets, the PLA has stayed hidden in its barracks. In the centre of Hong Kong, the PLA headquarters has even kept its old colonial name - the Prince of Wales Barracks.
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SOT, Michael DeGolyer, director of Hong Kong Transition Project at Hong Kong Baptist University (in English): Well, we've had over 1600 demonstrations since 1st July and the end of May - so in less than a year - it's far more than we ever had under the British; there has not been a single permit that has been denied - we even had the June 4 commemoration taking place, which was organised by an organisation that China had called subversive and wanted to ban. So the things that people were worried about didn't happen.
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SOT, Kinming Liu, Acting Chairman, Hong Kong Journalists Association (in English): I think in the last 12 months we have been feeling kind of relieved, not because Beijing has done something that's really good and we say Great, finally they did it - no, we are kind of relieved, and even grateful that they haven't killed anyone, they haven't arrested anyone, they haven't cracked down on us yet - so I don't think there's any real cause to celebrate, I think we should remain sceptical, and remain watchful, keep a very close eye on what's happening.
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SOT, Yash Ghai (in English): Well there hasn't been a great deal of change in the laws or the legal system, the Basic Law intended to preserve the system that existed before, it's a very central theme of the Basic Law.
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SOT, Yash Ghai (in English): I think this raises more fundamentally the question of how independent really the authorities are in regard to prosecution functions when some Chinese institution or persons well-placed in China are involved.
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SOT, Yu Chun Keung schoolboy (in Cantonese): If the curriculum is not taught in our mother tongue, and if all the books are in English, I will not understand and my academic results will suffer
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SOT, Principal of Yu Chun Keung school William Yip (in English): For my school and my colleagues, we already adopted Chinese as a medium of instruction for years so most of my parents - my students' parents - they support the school policy and also the government policy. They really think that teaching in Chinese will be more effective...and the students can achieve better
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Hong Kong's Hidden Gem: Public Housing Estate
Get Rea!: Hong Kong's world of cubicle dwellers | Full episode
54-year-old Yeung Suen is one of Hong Kong's 100,000 cubicle dwellers. He lives in a 35 square foot windowless space barely bigger than his bed. The irony is, he pays more per square foot in rent than someone living in a luxury apartment. In this episode, Get Real enters Hong Kong's world of cubicle dwellers, and asks if living in a cubicle is their only option.
Hong Kong's poor and elderly living in caged housing
Dateline revisits 'The Cage Dwellers'', a documentary that SBS aired on 27/09/2009. Amidst the glamorous apartments and up-market boutiques, reporter Adrian Brown uncovers a disturbing side to Asia's World City; Thousands of Hong Kong's poor and elderly are living in cages.
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Why is Hong Kong housing so expensive?
The government has long followed a policy to sell land to the highest bidder. With limited supply and increasing demand, property prices have shot through the roof in the last two decades. Should the government continue with this policy or is it time for a change?
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Princess Sees Hong Kong Aka Princess Alexandra In Hong Kong (1961)
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Princess Sees Hong Kong (title missing). Princess Alexandra in Hong Kong.
L/S Hong Kong harbour. L/S Government house. Princess Alexandra and Governor Sir Robert Black stroll in the gardens, followed by press photographers.
L/S of University Building. The Princess talks to students on the roof of the University. L/S Hong Kong harbour. Princess being driven down Nathan Road, Kowloon on way to Tai Po, crowds lining the road. L/S welcome sign in Tai Po. C/U of a Chinese peasant woman with large hat. M/S children holding large banner with Welcome Princess Alexandra.
M/S as Princess takes her seat to watch a display of dancing by children Gurkha rifles station in Hong Kong. Various shots Princess watching children dance. Various shots Princess meeting servicemen's families (Gurkhas?) at San Wai camp. L/S San Sai and Shek Kong area. Princess talks to two woman holding babies. Princess walks down road and stops to talk to wives.
L/S welcome Archway in the village of Pat Heung, pan down to people on side of road waiting the arrival of Princess. Various shots man dressed in Chinese lion costume dancing for Princess. M/S the Princess standing with an officer beside her car watching the dance.
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The Horrible Plight of Hong Kong's Poor
Cage People (1995): Near Hong Kong's Kowloon shopping district the city's poor suffer in squalid conditions. A man crouches in a tiny wire cage hardly bigger than a child's cot. It's been his home for 30 years. He is one of Hong Kong's hidden poor - a worker that nobody wants.
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Soaring rents and unemployment have forced an increasing number of people below the poverty line. While the rich business elite of Hong Kong line their pockets, state-welfare is still a dirty word. Despite the government's budget surplus there is no minimum wage or unemployment benefit. Meanwhile inflation, together with cheap Chinese workers, threatens to force more and more people out of work. Waiting lists for housing can be seven years and suicide rates are high. Dignity is an important concept for the Chinese and many regard a caged existence as hardly worth living.
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The last Hong Kong governor: Chris Patten on 20 years after the handover
Chris Patten, Hong Kong’s last governor, handed the former colony back to China on 1 July 1997 to be ruled with a degree of autonomy under a system called “one country, two systems”.
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Fading memories of Ma Wan Island's village, a Hong Kong ghost town
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Most visitors to Hong Kong arrive from the city’s international airport via the Tsing Ma Bridge, one of the world’s longest suspension spans connecting the islands of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan. But few notice the ghostly ruins of Ma Wan Village just northwest of the structure.
The once-thriving fishing and farming community first settled over 200 years ago, was earmarked for redevelopment in 1997. A dispute over the property halted development and has left the village frozen in a state of decay for decades.
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Squalid Living Conditions Of Hong Kong's Poor Population
Cage Dwellers (2010): Despite its wealth, Hong Kong is leaving its poor to rot in squalid conditions. With one toilet per floor and just a few square feet to their name, thousands of cage dwellers live no better than animals.
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Many can't afford three meals a day or even water, the rent is not even cheap! says human rights activist Sze Lai. She introduces us to 79-year-old Dai, who has spent 30 years in a cage. Ten other men share his room. Piled up to the ceiling, their cages would look shocking in a zoo. A chief worry is hygiene. 8-year-old Jessica lives with her mother in a cubicle too small to let a grown man stand. She points to the only toilet on their floor: I hate it. People above throw dead rats down here. Although the need for public housing is dire, nothing is being done to eradicate cage dwelling. With only half of the government elected by universal suffrage, the poor just don't have a voice.
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Just looking at these tiny shoebox apartments in Hong Kong will make you claustrophobic
Just looking at these tiny shoebox apartments in Hong Kong will make you claustrophobic
Hong Kong has a problem. With its population growing steadily, it doesn't have enough space to house the 7.2 million people in its 426 square miles.
But where the government sees a major issue, realtors see dollars. Because of demand, they can charge high rents for tiny spaces, charging up to HK$90, or $11.60 USD, per square foot.
And the spaces are getting smaller. People are living in apartments stacked with wooden boxes, known as coffin houses, and sleeping in cages about the size of rabbit hutches.
The photos of these spaces are extreme and expose the harsh realities of a city with the highest levels of inequality in the developed world.
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Flat Sizes in Hong Kong Getting Smaller and Smaller
Micro-apartments are a new trend in design in Western cities where downsizing is becoming a status symbol. But in Asia, small flats are not a trend but a life style. And, as Faiza Elmasry tells us, in Hong Kong, the city that’s often ranked as the world's costliest housing market, apartments are getting smaller and smaller. VOA's Faith Lapidus narrates.
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This weekend, my partner and I took a tour of Government House here in Wellington. The house was so much more beautiful than I thought it would be. I had seen pictures online etc, and it looked nice but in person it was so much more beautiful than I imagined. The part I was looking forward to seeing most was the dining room, as it has some gorgeous portraits of previous kings and queens. In addition to the ones I showed in the vlog, there were portraits of King Henry VIII, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, and Mary I which I stupidly was holding the camera the wrong for. This visit definitely reaffirmed my belief in in, and support of, the system of Constitutional Monarchy.
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