Apartments in your city in a general sense I guess may be better than those in Hong Kong, less cramped, more spacious, and reasonably priced.

In Hong Kong, a family of three, the normal working class, afford to buy private apartments, normally live in an apartment about 400 - 800 square feet.

Those who cannot afford and are lucky enough can be allocated public housing. Some grassroots barely have sub-dividend super mini apartments of about 100-200 square feet (an apartment is broken into super mini apartments for rent, some need to share a toilet and kitchen) and some even just have capsule beds (just a bed size, imagine those capsule hotels in Japan, but capsule beds in HK are in third-world conditions, you can't believe what you see if you see them first-person).