On a sweltering summer afternoon in Hong Kong, Yeung Fong-yan’s flat felt like an oven. Her air conditioner ran at full blast ...

Inside Hong Kong's terrifying 'coffin homes' with 200,000 crammed into cage-like spaces By SABRINA PENTY, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and CIARAN FOREMAN, TRAINEE REPORTER ...

For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia's wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view. But for thousands of the poorest, home is a metal cage with no hope for a ...

Hong Kong's so called "cage men" may be among the city's poorest, but rents per square foot for their dingy wire-mesh cubicles are now on a par with luxury flats in the city's famed Peak district.

The cage homes, which resemble livestock coops, have been a running scandal in Hong Kong’s housing market for decades, yet rather than disappear or be legislated out of existence, the number and ...

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 ...

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 ...

An estimated 100,000 residents of Hong Kong have inadequate housing, advocates say. The poorest, mostly elderly single men, live in wire mesh cages. Vincent Yu/STF ...

On a sweltering summer afternoon in Hong Kong, Yeung Fong-yan’s flat felt like an oven. Her air conditioner ran at full blast, but the tiny, tin-roofed room still baked in the heat, with a ...

More than 200,000 people in Hong Kong, China, live in partitioned shoebox apartments that offer just a few feet of space. They can barely fit a double bed and have become notorious for high rents.

Hong Kong's so called "cage men" may be among the city's poorest, but rents per square foot for their dingy wire-mesh cubicles are now on a par with luxury flats in the city's famed Peak district.