‘I feel hopeless’: Hong Kong’s working poor choose the streets over dismal housing

A plastic sheet, a blanket, a sleeping bag: a makeshift bed laid out in the shadow of towering apartment blocks by a man who would rather be homeless than cooped up in Hong Kong’s cramped and overpriced housing units. Bright-eyed, neatly turned out but painfully thin, 54-year-old Ah-po works in a warehouse by day. By … Continue reading ‘I feel hopeless’: Hong Kong’s working poor choose the streets over dismal housing