Joanna Chiu sits on the bed in her tiny room, her clothes and mattress soaked and the room musty after her air conditioner leaked overnight. Below, the stairway of the building in Sham Shui Po.Photos: David Wong
Joanna Chiu sits on the bed in her tiny room, her clothes and mattress soaked and the room musty after her air conditioner leaked overnight. Below, the stairway of the building in Sham Shui Po.Photos: David Wong
Hong Kong

Living in a squalid subdivided flat is a miserable experience for SCMP reporter

We've all heard about the miserable lives of people in subdivided flats. But Joanna Chiu decided to go further. She realised she could only really understand the problem by moving in herself

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Updated: 10:29am, 19 Aug, 2012

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Joanna Chiu sits on the bed in her tiny room, her clothes and mattress soaked and the room musty after her air conditioner leaked overnight. Below, the stairway of the building in Sham Shui Po.Photos: David Wong
Joanna Chiu sits on the bed in her tiny room, her clothes and mattress soaked and the room musty after her air conditioner leaked overnight. Below, the stairway of the building in Sham Shui Po.Photos: David Wong
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