The cost of housing, be it private flats or subdivided rooms, puts families at the lower end of society under pressure. Photo: Sam TsangThe cost of housing, be it private flats or subdivided rooms, puts families at the lower end of society under pressure. Photo: Sam Tsang
The cost of housing, be it private flats or subdivided rooms, puts families at the lower end of society under pressure. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong /  Society

We must act soon or generations of Hong Kong children will be raised in poverty, warns head of city’s social service council

  • Intergenerational threat to city’s children if government does not combat issues that have made 1.37 million people destitute
  • Children are going hungry as families struggle to make ends meet
Topic |   Education
Kanis LeungMary Ann Benitez
Kanis Leung and Mary Ann Benitez

Updated: 11:20pm, 20 Nov, 2018

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The cost of housing, be it private flats or subdivided rooms, puts families at the lower end of society under pressure. Photo: Sam TsangThe cost of housing, be it private flats or subdivided rooms, puts families at the lower end of society under pressure. Photo: Sam Tsang
The cost of housing, be it private flats or subdivided rooms, puts families at the lower end of society under pressure. Photo: Sam Tsang
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