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Hong Kong – 21 January 2025
1. Tracking shot of feet of Jimmy Au walking up stairs inside tenement building
2. Various of narrow corridor to Jimmy Au’s subdivided apartment with various doors and shoes on the floor and sign in English and Chinese "Beware of Fire" on wall
3. Pan from small window to bunk bed in Jimmy Au’s subdivided apartment
4. Close of extractor fan with a lot of dust and dirt on it
5. Various of toilet, shower, and kitchen in same tiny space in Jimmy Au’s subdivided apartment
6. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) [Shot over shoulder because interviewee Jimmy Au did not want to show her face]
"The landlord will have to pay money to improve the flat and I’m sure that would make the rent go up. So I hope the government will do something for the people affected."
7. Various street scenes around the area where Jimmy Au lives, showing tenement blocks, people on streets, and traffic
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Hong Kong – 03 February 2025
8. Wide of Sze Lai-shan, Deputy Director of Society for Community Organisation
9. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Sze Lai-shan, Deputy Director of Society for Community Organisation
"The situation is that this consultation does not include the single-bed accommodation, and we actually think that the conditions in single-bed accommodation are even worse. So we hope that after this round of consultation, the single-bed and other bad living conditions could be included in this subdivided flats policy. And together with a relocation policy, we hope this could improve the overall housing situation in Hong Kong."
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Hong Kong – 06 February 2025
10. Pan of small room with sixteen bunks packed in to it
11. Various of toilet shared by residents
12. Pull out from food on bed of resident Law Chung Yu to Law sitting on bed
13. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Law Chung Yu, resident in single bed shared apartment
"The government’s policies, if you’ve got places like this, definitely won’t work, the regulations definitely won’t work."
14. Pan of small room where Law Chung Yu has one bunk
STORYLINE:
Jimmy Au’s world shrinks to about the size of a parking space whenever she gets home.
Her cramped Hong Kong home is one of four units carved out of what was once a single apartment.
Most of the space is occupied by the bunk bed she shares with her husband and son.
The toilet and shower is packed together with the tiny area to prepare food, separated only by a curtain.
But what troubles Au most about her home is that she might lose it.
Hong Kong’s government is planning to crack down on what it calls inadequate housing in subdivided apartments, mandating a minimum size and other baseline standards for homes like Au’s.
A public consultation period ended on Monday, and the government is aiming to pass the rules into law this year.
The proposed rules leave many low-income residents like Au uncertain about their future in one of the world’s most expensive housing markets.
Au, a housewife who moved from mainland China nine years ago, said her family pays about US$460 a month in rent, about half of the income her husband makes from irregular renovation jobs.
She uses Jimmy as a first name in English.
She did not want to show her face on camera.
Housing is a sensitive issue in Hong Kong, one of the world’s least affordable cities, where the government controls land supply and high property costs are the norm.
That means single beds in shared rooms, the cheapest and most cramped place you can get.
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