In wealthy Hong Kong, there's a dark side to the housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, so-called "coffin homes" and other inadequate housing. Photo: AP In wealthy Hong Kong, there's a dark side to the housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, so-called "coffin homes" and other inadequate housing. Photo: AP
In wealthy Hong Kong, there's a dark side to the housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, so-called "coffin homes" and other inadequate housing. Photo: AP
Richard Wong
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Explaining the fine line between absolute and relative poverty

Hong Kong’s poverty problem is about income security that allows quality education for children, quality health care, and owning a home to protect the lifetime purchasing power of hard-earned savings

Richard Wong
Richard Wong

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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In wealthy Hong Kong, there's a dark side to the housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, so-called "coffin homes" and other inadequate housing. Photo: AP In wealthy Hong Kong, there's a dark side to the housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, so-called "coffin homes" and other inadequate housing. Photo: AP
In wealthy Hong Kong, there's a dark side to the housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, so-called "coffin homes" and other inadequate housing. Photo: AP
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Richard Wong

Richard Wong

Richard Wong Yue-chim is the Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy at the University of Hong Kong