Tens of thousands HongKong residents living in rabbit cages, piled on top of each other.

[snagglepuss]

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Hong Kong, one of the world's richest cities, is abuzz with a luxury property boom that has seen homes exchanged for record sums.

But the wealth of the city has a darker side, with tens of thousands priced out of housing altogether and forced to live in the most degrading conditions.

These pictures by British photographer Brian Cassey capture the misery of people - some estimates put the figure as high as 100,000 - who are forced to live in cages measuring just 6ft by 2 1/2ft.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084971/Hong-Kongs-cage-homes-Tens-thousands-living-6ft-2ft-rabbit-hutches.html#ixzz1jBQjtMY7

[JustAnotherGen]

1. The true price of cheap goods

Shows up in Hong Kong. It's evident in the high rate of poverty in America in ADDITION to our many homeless individuals and families.

[vaberella]

2. I watch a lot of HongKongese dramas....nothing like this is ever captured.

Shit that is incredible and heartbreaking.

[rhett o rick]

3. This is capitalism at it's finest. Ayn Rand would laugh. nm

[Puzzledtraveller]

6. explain

[arcane1]

7. The simplest explaination: Ayn Rand was a sociopath n/t

[rhett o rick]

10. THe 1% all suffer from class sociopathy. nm

[rhett o rick]

9. Explain what? That capitalism leads to mass poverty? or that Ayn Rand

believed that the world was for the 1% and the rest of us could live in cages and be slaves?

[Snake Alchemist]

13. Not so much capitalism as gentrification.

Which seems to transcend most economic models.

[snagglepuss]

15. Gentrification? Are you serious?

That is the most outrageously inane comment I've ever read on DU.

[Hugabear]

4. Teabaggers would look at that as an answer to homelessness

Just sayin'

[ceile]

5. .....

[Magoo48]

8. What can one say?

[Neue Regel]

11. The Daily Mail?

I'm sure this story is 100% accurate

[redqueen]

14. I'm sure you don't give a crap if it is.

It's quite easy to verify, and it's not exactly some new revelation.

China Business
Sep 3, 2009
Rent soars for Hong Kong cage dwellers
By Chris Stewart and Olivia Chung
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/KI03Cb02.html


As Recession Eases, No Escape for Hong Kong's Cage Dwellers
By Lisa Thomas / Hong Kong Friday, Aug. 21, 200
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1917897,00.html#ixzz1jCCamtCf
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1917897,00.html

[Snake Alchemist]

12. Sound like gentrification on steroids.

I had a thread on a similar topic.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002128317