Humans In Cages: Hong Kong's Shoebox Housing

A woman and her son in their 5.6-square-meter subdivided flat in Hong Kong, which has a monthly rent of $487

A Hong Kong "cage" home, which rents for $230 per month

Lee Oi Lin, a 56-year-old woman, poses in her 4.1-square-meter subdivided flat inside an industrial building in Hong Kong. (2012 photo)

Michelle Wong, a single mother, plays with her 2-year-old daughter in the bedroom of their 8-square-meter subdivided flat in a district of Hong Kong. (2012 photo)

Thirty-seven-year-old Li Rong poses in her 3.2-square-meter subdivided flat inside an industrial building in Hong Kong. (2012 photo)

A woman sits inside her 2.2-square-meter "cubicle" home in this 2009 photo.

A Hong Kong cubicle home

Wong Chun-sing, 91, posed inside his "cubicle" home in Hong Kong in 2009. 

A resident poses in one of Hong Kong's "cage homes" in 2009.

A Hong Kong "cage" home

A man burns incense while sitting in a "cage home" in Hong Kong's Tai Kok Tsui district in 2008.

Ng, a 60-year-old man, leaves a communal toilet near his 5.6-square-meter subdivided flat inside an industrial building in Hong Kong. (2012 photo)