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Hong Kong, Rich Live In Mountain Mansions And Poor Live In Cages
8
Febraury, 2013
For
many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia's wealthiest
cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of
Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, like Leung Cho-yin, home is a
metal cage.
The
67-year-old former butcher pays 1,300 Hong Kong dollars ($167) a
month for one of about a dozen wire mesh cages resembling rabbit
hutches crammed into a dilapidated apartment in a gritty,
working-class West Kowloon neighborhood.
The
cages, stacked on top of each other, measure 1.5 square meters (16
square feet). To keep bedbugs away, Leung and his roommates put thin
pads, bamboo mats, even old linoleum on their cages' wooden planks
instead of mattresses.
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