[Future of Sinkapore?] An inside look at HK low cost apartment living

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German photographer Michael Wolf gives the world an inside look at the cramped conditions of low-income apartments in Hong Kong. Seeing these overhead views of identical 10’ x 10’ rooms makes this reporter thankful to just have a toilet that isn’t in the living room.

With 6,480 people packed into every square kilometer, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. To put this number into perspective, Tokyo has a population density of 6,000 people per km2, London is at 1,570 people per km2, and Los Angeles is at 3,124 people per km2.

To make living even more crowded, only 6.8 percent of land in Hong Kong is used for housing, giving rise to behemoth apartment structures.

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