As part of World News Day 2022, a global campaign to amplify the impact of journalism and show how it can make a difference, the Post is republishing Life in Hong Kong’s worst living spaces: From cage homes to subdivided flats, a multimedia series Siumei prepares dinner in the living room of the 100 sq ft space she calls home.
Hong Kong’s private hospitals, which are mostly not equipped to treat Covid-19 infections, will offer beds to non-coronavirus patients from public medical facilities to ease the city’s healthcare crunch.
Concern groups say elderly residents will struggle to navigate new dual-colour coded system to be introduced as upgrade to ‘Leave Home Safe’ app. Many older residents do not own smartphones, according to Sze Lai-shan, deputy director of the Society for Community Organisation.
For more than 220,000 in appalling subdivided units, dream of better housing seems beyond reach. Government must act quickly on land, housing issues to build more public rental flats, experts say.