. angela a social worker is showing me a typical apartment there are hundreds of thousands like this one in hong kong mr hugh lives here. this was once a five room apartment now each room is home to a different person or family that s more profitable for the landlords the concept is called subdivided flats nearly half the population lives like this the tiny rooms can rent for five hundred or six hundred euros. mr hugh lives here with his wife and daughter in less than ten square metres he has come to accept the situation. oh. that s interesting you call this. one old on the phone trust me he was not happy at that point is that the small. that i fall in the snow but at the time
somewhere that s a problem for those who have no money and no choice shanshu we post district is one of the poorest areas of hong kong still that doesn t mean that rents are cheap. angela a social worker is showing me a typical apartment there are hundreds of thousands like this one in hong kong mr hugh lives here. this was once a five room apartment now each room is home to a different person or family that s more profitable for the landlord the concept is called subdivided flats nearly half the population lives like this the tiny rooms can rent for five hundred or six hundred euros. mr hugh lives here with his wife and daughter in less than ten square metres he has come to accept the situation.
a separate wing here a sandpits playground and recreation area. considered so in general the target. is young families useful yes typical young families going to give me some idea of the scale and i d be interested in a four room apartment on the first floor would come at three thousand four hundred fifty year of a city or. for an apartment would cost four hundred fifty thousand euros to buy the classes are a typical middle class family they both have good jobs buying property used to be the way to start building up assets. at this point i think we were thirty before we could even start to think about our old age and accumulating wealth and off to doing. isn t it now i m almost forty and we still haven t managed to put away much in terms of reserves. you know how to even come up with the minimum amount of capital so that banks will be able to give us
show because a lot of the joy has a lot. their home is in a prime location five people share a three room apartment and joyce is an office worker bob is the manager of a solar energy firm and travels extensively often. to africa shanghai s property prices have shot up by over one third in the past year even higher earners find it hard to keep pace. we need to get banks we need to work harder. that s why i have to. bear the most of my working days. traveling a lot. i asked my parents to. be in shanghai with us so we do it together. they are already busy preparing lunch bob s parents needed a while to adjust but now they feel at home in the megacity there s not much time
the neighboring arab countries and overcrowded poorly supplied camps. so the arab states didn t really want this population in their midst. so they wanted them to return they also wanted the refugees to return because they understood that a mass return of refugees to israel would topple the israeli state it with undermine the israeli state. the refugees pawns in the conflict with israel. the situation is most devastating in lebanon their state last night many professions they cannot buy land them marginalized. what happened then still continues today. even sadder fled to lebanon on the two children. the family went on to have fifteen members accommodated in a two room apartment. as