The number of city residents living below the poverty line keeps rising. Experts say hand-outs alone will not solve the problem, and labour market reforms are sorely needed.

Hong Kong must resist calls by NGOs to increase welfare payments to the poor, as it would only prevent families in need from taking responsibility for their own choices.

To take care of their families, these women have to travel north every two weeks to three months to renew travel permits.

Air conditioning and desktops for internet are better options than squalid, bug-infested subdivided flats or 24-hour fast-food chains.

• Daniel Roche helped form Society for Community Organisation, and worked helping resettle poor left homeless by reclamation and storms, but giving voice to these groups drew ire of colonial government.

Mainland native Ma Yujiang’s experiences as a new resident of the city give rise to art exhibition of gathered receipts and nighttime photos.

Annual soccer tournament is the chance of a lifetime for former rough sleepers, drug addicts and alcoholics. To earn a spot on the team headed for Mexico, players must show determination and growth on and off the field

While homeless city residents have various reasons for sleeping out in public or in 24-hour restaurants, about half say they can’t afford Hong Kong’s exorbitant rents.

Nguyen Van Son and his neighbours on a footbridge in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong’s poorest district, have few places to go after packing up their shelters: a subdivided flat, a ‘coffin home’, or another street berth.

Society for Community Organisation says definition of who can visit prisoners is too narrow, preventing human rights groups from checking on welfare of those locked up. 

Society for Community Organisation calls for governments on both sides to consider cases and grant such women the right to stay in city.

‘Don’t worry, be happy’ may be easier said than done, but performers such as magicians and comedians are calling for government support to develop their brand of joy

Survey findings come alongside calls for government to adapt vacant sites for social housing

The group submitted a petition and appealed to Hong Kong security minister John Lee Ka-chiu to liaise with mainland authorities

Community group asks government to extend subsidies for therapy from preschool to primary school pupils, as some low-income parents are using the bulk of their funds for private sessions

Idle Market, an NGO started by a woman who grew up in the area, collects household items for less fortunate to sell

Amid the public housing crunch, single people earning a low wage are taking up residence in subdivided flats and cage homes, but the cheaper rent comes with a steep emotional price: isolation from loved ones.

A tiresome shuffle back and forth across the border is disrupting the lives and education of an estimated 7,000 Hong Kong children, activists and families said yesterday, calling for government action.