matchboxes – Spress https://en.spress.net Spress is a general newspaper in English which is updated 24 hours a day. Fri, 21 May 2021 05:15:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 191965906 Unbelievable pictures of life in apartments as tiny as matchboxes less than 4m2 https://en.spress.net/unbelievable-pictures-of-life-in-apartments-as-tiny-as-matchboxes-less-than-4m2/ Fri, 21 May 2021 05:15:08 +0000 https://en.spress.net/unbelievable-pictures-of-life-in-apartments-as-tiny-as-matchboxes-less-than-4m2/ Unexpectedly, Hong Kong has such a suffocating apartment.
Can you imagine a family living in an apartment that isn’t as big as a king-size bed? In Hong Kong, some families are forced to live in apartments measuring about 3.7 square meters, with overlapping bunk beds with cooking areas and food storage a few centimeters away from electronic devices.

China’s Association of Community Organizations (SoCO), a human rights organization, has released photos of suffocating apartments in Hong Kong as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the harsh living conditions people live in. city ​​dwellers are facing. To capture the scale of these micro-apartments, the photographer captured the apartment above. Wide-angle shots are taken by fixing the camera with the wide-angle lens to the ceiling, and then triggering the shot from a distance. With over 7.5 million people, Hong Kong is one of the most populous cities in the world. Rapid urbanization causes many people to live in narrow living spaces that are “suffocating”. According to the Association for Community Organizations, more than 10,000 people in Hong Kong live in already small apartments that are split into smaller apartments. An average of 0.09 square meters in Hong Kong costs nearly 29.9 million VND. Compared to New York (USA), Hong Kong’s rent is 35% higher.

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