Nat Geo: Life Inside Hong Kong's Coffin Cubicles

An estimated 200,000 Hong Kong residents live in inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organisation.

"Cage homes" are minuscule rooms, occupied by the poorest people in the city.

The tenants differ in age and gender, but all are unable to afford a small cubicle, which would allow more room to stand up.

Hong Kong's glitter conceals the 200,000 people shut out from the city's social improvements.

Residents are forced to be creative when storing things in their limited space.

Ah Tin lives in a 12-square-foot bed, closed in by rows and rows of wires. Sorrow has destroyed his appetite, and he rarely eats.

Mr. Leung is one of the few cage dwellers who reads extensively. He’s held down a variety of temporary jobs in his life. However, he’s now too old to get a job and so spends his time reading, escaping from the world of misery and poverty that surrounds him.