It is more difficult than ordinary people imagine. How difficult is it for ordinary Hong Kong people to find housing?

I believe that most people think that Hong Kong is a very prosperous and bustling metropolis. However, these are all illusions reflected in movies. The real Hong Kong is a city that never sleeps on one side and a slum on the other. It is really not an exaggeration to say that due to the growth of population in Hong Kong, the housing shortage problem is becoming more and more serious. Things are more expensive when they are scarce. House prices are becoming more expensive year by year, and the housing problem of ordinary people is becoming more difficult.

How high are housing prices in Hong Kong? Hundreds of thousands per square meter are always less, and an inch of land is no longer enough to describe it. Therefore, house prices are so expensive that most people’s lifelong goal is to buy a house of 70 square meters. For ordinary working-class people, living in a one-bedroom apartment that is more than 30 meters away is already very good. But as mentioned before, in the city that never sleeps and in the slums, many people will not even be able to live in a 30-meter "mansion" in this life.

The unit price of housing in Hong Kong is the highest in the world. It can be said that it is even worse than in international metropolises such as New York and Tokyo. Parking spaces are much more valuable than cars. 67 million is relatively normal. The average house price in Hong Kong is 20 to 30. Between ten thousand and ten thousand, this is not a luxury area, just ordinary houses.

This means that most of the income of ordinary citizens in Hong Kong is used to pay rent. For ordinary Hong Kong families, the long mortgage period and low down payment ratio enable them to maintain normal living conditions. standard of living. According to a survey, 53% of women aged 20-40 in Hong Kong do not want children. The direct reason is the shortage of housing, which directly affects the quality of life.

In fact, this kind of apartment is relatively happy. The highest rent is not in luxury houses or ordinary residential areas, but in Sham Shui Po, the poorest district among the 18 districts in Hong Kong. There are cage houses and subdivided houses everywhere. , coffin houses, the highest rent per square foot can reach 300 Hong Kong dollars, and even incomplete statistics say that 200,000 Hong Kong people live in this kind of place. This is the darkest place in Hong Kong, where neon lights cannot shine.

Needless to say, the coffin house is like a corpse lying down when you live in it. You can’t stand up. The cage house was a temporary accommodation for immigrants back then, just like a dog cage. There is no Exaggeration, it is a serious insult to human dignity. They are collectively called cage dwellers. There are more than a dozen three-layer iron cages in the 80-square-meter house, housing more than 200 people. There is sweat, smoke, and stench everywhere. They live a life that is several times harder than that of ordinary people. High-rise buildings and ordinary huts stand side by side. It is a bit ironic that Hong Kong, with the huge gap between rich and poor, is indeed one of the richest cities in the world.