In this Thursday, March 28, 2017 photo, Cheung Chi-fong, 80, sleeps in his tiny "coffin home" where he cannot stretch out his legs in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there's a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, "coffin homes" and other "inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo, Li Suet-wen and her son, 6, and daughter, 8, live in a 120-square foot room crammed with a bunk bed, small couch, fridge, washing machine and small table in an aging walkup in Hong Kong as she pays HK$4,500 ($580) a month in rent and utilities. That’s nearly half the HK$10,000 ($1,290) she earns at a bakery decorating cakes. They’re among an estimated 200,000 people in the former British colony living in «subdivided units.» That’s 18 percent more than four years ago and includes 35,500 children 15 and under, government figures show. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 photo, Hong Kong residents, who only gave their surname, Lam, top left, Wan, top right, and Kitty Au, pose at their «coffin homes» in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, «coffin homes» and other «inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 photo, a resident who only gave his surname Sin, 55, tidies up the bed in his «coffin home» in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, «coffin homes» and other «inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 photo, Simon Wong, an unemployed man, watches TV in his «coffin home» in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, «coffin homes» and other «inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, April 20, 2017 photo, a five year-old boy plays outside his tiny home which is made of concrete and corrugated metal on the terrace of a apartment block as he lives with his parents in an illegal rooftop hut where is located next to a public housing estate at the background in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, March 28, 2017 photo, Cheung Chi-fong, 80, sleeps in his tiny «coffin home» where he cannot stretch out his legs in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, «coffin homes» and other «inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, March 28, 2017 photo, residents who only gave their surname Yeung, left and Lui, take rest in their «coffin homes» in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, «coffin homes» and other «inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, March 28, 2017 photo, a resident who only gave his surname Yeung, takes rest in his «coffin home» in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, «coffin homes» and other «inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, March 28, 2017 photo, a resident who only gave his surname Lui, has dinner in his «coffin home» in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, «coffin homes» and other «inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, March 28, 2017 photo, a set of grimy toilets and single sink shared by the coffin home’s two dozen inhabitants, including a few single women, is located at a flat in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, «coffin homes» and other «inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, March 28, 2017 photo, Wong Tat-ming, 63, sits in his «coffin home» which is next to a set of grimy toilets in Hong Kong as he pays HK$2,400 ($310) a month for a compartment measuring three feet by six feet. It’s crammed with all his meager possessions, including a sleeping bag, small color TV and electric fan. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, March 28, 2017 photo, Tse Chu, a retired waiter, sleeps in his «coffin home» in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, «coffin homes» and other «inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, March 28, 2017 photo, Wong Tat-ming, 63, sits in his «coffin home» where is crammed with all his meager possessions, including a sleeping bag, small color TV and electric fan. He and another elderly resident complain to a visiting social worker about bedbugs and cockroaches. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo, Li Suet-wen and her son, 6, and daughter, 8, live in a 120-square foot room crammed with a bunk bed, small couch, fridge, washing machine and small table in an aging walkup in Hong Kong as she pays HK$4,500 ($580) a month in rent and utilities. That’s nearly half the HK$10,000 ($1,290) she earns at a bakery decorating cakes. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
