Due to the increasing population in the world, there is a shortage of land for people to live on. This problem is especially more in those cities where there is both development and livelihood. To earn a living here, people are living in such conditions that you will be stunned to see. At this time, one such video of Hong Kong is going viral.
The lack of space in Hong Kong has increased so much that people here are living in wooden coffin cubicles instead of houses. These 15 square feet wooden boxes are also called coffin cubicles because they are shaped like coffins. Some of their videos are going viral on social media, let us show you one of these videos. Canadian photographer Benny Lam took pictures of these houses and he also made a documentary on them called Trapped.
Is this a house or a matchbox?
In the video going viral, you can see that due to lack of any option and the exorbitant increase in the cost of house rent, low-income people are forced to live in boxes. In these box-like houses, the kitchen and toilet are together, which are very small. They are made by joining wood or wires. As crowded as these buildings are from outside, they are ten times more crowded from inside. People do not live in the houses but are trapped. Neither can they walk even four steps nor can they sleep peacefully. Those who are tall have to sleep with their legs curled up. The surprising thing is that even then its rent is more than 20000 rupees in Indian currency.