Someone is ROBBING these people. If each one of those people are paying $257, someone is getting 10k per floor. That’s crazy. Those things look to be 6’ x 3’, about 18 square feet. That’s over $14 per square foot per month. Do the math & a small 1000 square foot apartment would be well over $14,000 per month. That’s crazy
Its the way the HK econamy works. Blame the brits for it. HK is a UK experiment on the pure version of Free market econamy. There is 0 tax on everything. This is excelent for bussness but terrible for the gov as there is no way for them to get money and cover the services (fire, police, hospitals, transportation ext). So the 2 major income sources are Land lease and rent from public housing. The HK gov owns all of the land and they lease it out to developers for construction. The gov is incentivized not to allow development on the 90% of HKs land in order to jack the price and get money. This creates an absurd land value. I think 2-3 years ago HK's gov broke a record, they leased a plot for 1 skyscraper for 50 years in exchange for 6.5 bilion USD. So think how much the prices in that building are going to be jacked witch such a handycap of startup cost from the land alone.
@@mowtow90 wow thank you wasn't aware of how any of that worked, although I heard hong kong is one of the most expensive cities to live in. Now I get why.
$12K 60 months ago I bought my place. Damaged by hurricane and run down I was happy to get it because it beats living in a car. I refuse to pay rent. I bought a 30' rv trailer to live in , the city said I get caught sleeping in it I'll have to remove it in 36 hours. So I use that for storage. Saving money to have a small house moved on here. Many of the houses here are falling apart and the city wants to act as if there's character in doing things their way. When were shooting for food in the coming years they will not be working.
This is horrifying but really made me think about how fortunate my life is. At least I can stretch my legs out fully in my bed and stand in my room. Thank you for shedding light on this topic.
What the fuck does our fortune matter for. Just because we're fortunate doesn't change the fact that this is the disgusting reality for thousands upon thousands of people. I cant sit down be thankful for what I have knowing that there's so many hurting people in such devastating conditions. Makes me feel like an absolutely worthless fucking pig. our stories of Fortune don't matter our situations are super rare and theirs are extremely common and thats what hurts. I'd give it all away in a heartbeat if I could to someone who actually deserves it. Cause I don't.
Horrifying yes but what is the alternative. It is better than having homeless people live on the street or tents in public parks as is commonplace in America.
This is definitely a fire hazard. When they mentioned bed bugs...OMG. I hope a solution to this problem is found. The fact that the title was NOT clickbait at all. My heart goes out to those living in these conditions.
Yes, I was wondering about that, then he mentioned them. Having had bed bugs and spending and losing thousands to get rid of them over around a 6-month period, they're a nightmare. These people wouldn't have any hope without moving 😥
That's what I was thinking a fire would spark a inferno in seconds and kill lot's of people that are living like that I'm surprised there are no laws for that but it is China and they don't care for anyone except themselves
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. Salam (Peace) ---------------------
There's an air conditioner at 5:09. That being said, these places only have a single air conditioner to ventilate every coffin home, which really sucks.
I have been homeless I've lived in a car I have been through a lot and it breaks my heart to see anybody no matter what they have did to get themselves there no one should ever have to live that way it's heartbreaking
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. Salam (Peace) ---------------------
Some of the people would be single and may have no family or job. They would have to go sit in a cafe or go for a walk just to escape. That is if they could walk. Such social injustices.
....But, you'd rather that they be homeless (or reduced to living in their car)? That's better than having a cubicle to live in?!? As a person who has ALSO been homeless (and lived in a car -- a VW Bug and later a Toyota Corolla), I can assure you it would be better off to have to have a rented cubicle (especially if you have access to a sink and toilet). And YOU know this! ....You know that places have prohibitions on "car camping"; you know that sleeping rough in the streets is extremely insecure and that your stuff will be stolen if you leave it to go to the bathroom or anything.
This "Coffin" is far better than that of their actual prison's there otherwise they'd all choose to be or go to said prison, use your brain seriously!.. It is very sad how they have to live while working extremely hard for next to nothing and nowhere near what their efforts are worth but you saying that a literal prison is better or that they'd be treated better is a truly insane thing to say!.. If those living this way could escape such a hell they would which should lead people to think about who or what's making it all happen and why it's keeping them in such conditions and the answer is obvious. They/These residents and civilians cannot or dare not speak out or life will become far worse and that is a truth that anyone in the country and even outsiders refuse to stand against. Even me saying that their government/politicians should be ashamed can do nothing to help them VERY REGRETFULLY but I am only one person. I hope above all that such strong amazingly hard working people will be able to gain a life they truly deserve and that the government and it's scum politicians will be punished sooner rather than later!.
@@dylansiri144 I think you didn't comprehend what I commented so I'll try it again, They have NO choice sadly and this "Coffin" is far better than THEIR prisons aka the prisons in THEIR COUNTRY.. And even if they were in an American prison they'd still be getting fucked but in a different cheek splitting way lol . Hope that clears up any misunderstanding or comprehension issue you may have had. LOL
This is degrading. These are human beings. Let someone who lives in a beautiful home go see what it's like. No one should have to live in such horrid conditions. Feel so sad for them.
Antinatalism definitely needs to be pushed hard. Human breeding has gone too far! Real human suffering is right in front of you. You Breeders refuse to face reality.
It's horrible, I must say. And I thought the rent would be a lot cheaper at about maybe 50 dollars a month. Considering the minimum space and no ceiling fan and just a light bulb. So electric bils couldn't be high unless they put like a non energy conserving air cond or something. I don't think desk fans would be too harmful. Am I thinking this right?
I have few co-workers from HK, what they do is buy apartments in HK and renting it out for huge amount of money while they work here in the US. They said Canadian/HK citizens have more apartments rent outs. When greediness takes away humanity, this is what happens.
Lots of HK people do this as well, they buy houses, divided them into smaller flats and rent them out in a unreasonably expensive price to maximise their profit
This is drug addicts and the mentally ill living in buildings instead of on the street. It is an improvement compared to America where cheap accommodation is illegal, creating homelessness by pricing people out.
I can tell you about coffin living. I was homeless in Tampa, FL many many years ago. There was a rooming house/flop house on Florida Ave called The Good Samaritan Inn. Ran by the nicest guy Christian man you would ever wanna meet (never even heard this man say a cuss word or get angry) John Watson. He had rooms some had bathrooms alot didn't so you shared with others. If you were really down on your luck (like I was)and you had $8 in your pocket...you could get a bed in the bunkroom. I tried to help as much as I could while I stayed there and John helped me get some public benefits I qualified for. Good Man. Rough living though
This makes me 100x more grateful to born in Malaysia, God blessed my family. Hong Kong is a richer place than the entirety of Malaysia but at least I live in a proper house with a proper and spacious backyard compared to Hong Kongers.
x silap dah ada bangunan sama mcm hong kong dkt malaysia, siap bangga lagi bertemakan “hong kong style”.. x tau lah kat mana.. tapi dah siap. ntah siapa yg luluskan
These are the poorest of the most mentally ill and drug addicted HKers. If you were poor, mentally unstable and unable to work in Malaysia, you would not have the best accommodation either.
@@azhariarif Penang house price and rent goees brrrrrrrr.........haiya....... sometimes I wish I was a bit rich........having no permanent house and the threat of being a homeless make me feel depressed.......
I assume you live in the US. Do you Know there are villages of people living in tents just outside of factorys they work in. Sure most are addicts who rather blow their check on their addiction than a place to "live" so what is the difference here? All people really n3ed is a place to sleep and do your drugs in.
@@harryballsackyyou were more privileged from the beginning. Being born in a country that allows you to advance and have a higher quality of life and abundance of space/land. Hong Kong not so much.
I just couldn't stop imagining my family trying to live there.. It really puts things into perspective, and makes me grateful for the lives my family members have. Even if it's not the ones they dream about.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. Salam (Peace) ---------------------
my grandma used to work for this rich lady who lived in hong kong as basically her nanny at one point. i used to think it was so cool when she would tell stories of taking the ladies kids to all these expensive trips in/out of hong kong, but my grandma said it wasnt all glamorous . it saddened her how obvious the wealth gap is in hong kong and how normalized it is , and a lot of it came from interacting w the locals outside of the gated community the lady stayed at
obviously its coming here to the usa. its practically been here all the time. "the rich gets richer, the poor get poorer" has been the human race m.o. since the beginning of civilization. its just expressed more vividly in alot of Old World countries/cities, and war torn places & corrupt governments. but believe that wealth gap is here already. been here. and will get worst by time.
@@fleurite772 sorry I dont understand what are you saying. So you mean that it's not convenient living in countryside? Then govt should make it convenient
This is just too sad from a human aspect. At this point, it's better off to commit a non violent crime and go to jail. You'll have more space, access to showers, 3 meals a day etc.
That not how things work, you can't get a job easily beacause they have a record show you were a criminal. killing, stealing...doesn't matter, you will be invisible to employer
this is honestly a complete nightmare to witness. Imagine the additional toll on your mental well being in a place like that. They deserve better. That's worse living than prison!!
I lived in Hong Kong for four years. I saw some of these buildings where they had these cage homes. It’s sickening because there are so many rich people too living in HK. They only care about themselves. Their own families. Not about others. Such a wide divide between rich and poor. I saw. HK is extremely expensive. Especially for housing. It’s insane. It puts London and NYC to shame. When I was living there I kept wondering how does anyone survive here? Not counting the rich of course.
@@capitanDakkar of course there's middle class and also people with different economic status. The housing problem of Hong Kong is very complicated, and it seems that there would never be a solution. So sad, as a Hongkonger, we really could do nothing to help the lower class people. 😔
@@cloudtam9931 yeah I expected that this issue was extremely complicated. It’s awful situation for so many people. A lot of people though see extremely inequality and think that the cause of poverty is the existence of extreme wealth but that’s overly simplistic
I lived in Hong Kong for most of my life. I know people that live in these and for the most part people are okay with it. It is common to have a family of four living in 450 sq.ft so when a single guy or girl reaches late teens and early twenties and sees one of these then it's almost a win-win as the rent is quite cheap (compared to bigger 300 sq.ft small apartments) and they see it as their private space. HK'ers typically work long days and will eat out so these coffins are places to sleep, shower and use the toilet. I don't think that they are fit for humans, it's horrific, but when you've spent all your life living in a tiny bunk bed, with your parents literally on the other side of the room, these suddenly seem like your own space.
Same sh1t here in the USA except they sleep on the street or in a tent, hell some of them coffin apartment buildings are nicer then apartments building here in USA.
in 1990 kowloon walled city had a population of around 50,000, or a density of nearly 5 million people per square mile. hong kong has areas that are going down this route and will eventually become lawless self-sustaining communities because the proper authorities aren't paying attention. I think many of the biggest, most built-up, most populated cities on earth are going to meet this fate in the end- they will become simply unliveable for a huge underclass that can barely secure necessities.
This is depressing to see. :< When I went to Hong Kong 4 years ago, I was fascinated by these "monster buildings" but I didn't know that this was really squeezed inside. It's really sad to know this one from this video. Thank you for sharing.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. Salam (Peace) ---------------------
I can’t help but absolutely despise those who buy out tens of homes and rent them at extortionate prices whilst those actually living in the city can’t afford one so have to resort to living in absolutely inhumane conditions! They are a cancer.
@@JT_Saenzit’s happening in Burlington,. Every house sold near the airport lately is rented to immigrants who don’t have much other choice than to pay the exorbitant rent! Dogwood Avenue is that example of which I talk about. We’re running out of room.
@@MrReymoclif714 OMG! What the actual hell?! It’s happening in Texas, as well! Foreign and Nationwide Corporations are buying out full-fledged neighborhoods and raising their mortgages as a result! I get it’s Capitalism, but like….there’s gotta be a limit on how much a corp. can extort the common man!
Happens here in the uk, landlords will buy up entire streets and rent them out for extortionate prices. Housing is treated like an investment rather than a basic living necessity.
It is incredibly disrespectful for a big and undoubtedly wealthy and well off youtuber to make fun of and mock this situation and these poor people's living conditions. Shame on you.
I live in a Room and Board House , I share bathroom , and I have a nice size room but no access to a kitchen so I fast food alot , Now watching this I actually feel Thankful to live in The America the Great Country and have what I have
I’ve been in bad living situations, homeless, etc. so I can’t say that I’d be ungrateful to have any space that I could call my own - no matter how small and badly kept - when struggling financially. They conditions may not be great, but I’m glad that these people have somewhere that’s theirs and somewhat protected from people and weather. Hopefully better solutions will be found 🙏
From a similar background myself. If they had places like this in major cities for $200-$300 I'd be pretty darn satisfied and the big headed people can keep their 4 bedroom homes to themselves.
Its inhumane and disgusting. Makes me appreciate 2,000 square feet and a huge, private backyard even more. I own one of the smaller houses in my neighborhood as I live in one of the richest neighborhoods in my city and jog past literal mansions every morning and find myself wanting them. And then I think about how I am living better than 99% of the global population.
This is absolutely horrible. No human being deserves to live like this. The people who live in these so-called homes are so vulnerable. They deserve so much better. I'm speechless...
@@cmcspeed5He doesn't think he will, but he would. He THINKS he's a big money elite, but the people with the real money would absorb his assets and put him in a pod with the rest of the plebes.
These coffin homes are inhumane. But your surprise at people waiting 4.5 years for public housing shocked me. Here in my area of Melbourne Australia, the wait for public housing is 25 years plus…
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. Salam (Peace) ---------------------
@@food4444lyfeterrible times. How are families going to wait and survive for 4.5 years just waiting to get a house? They stay on streets? I mean 4.5 years is way too long
I slept in a walk-in closet for a few years that was bigger than this. It was small but At least i could fit a bed, desk, bureau and night stand in it.
That is what free market economy looks like if you apply it to essentials like housing. The people are priced out of the market of livable homes, and the "market" offered only these coffin homes.
Well it sucks because in an ideal world, these people should have the ability to travel to a different country and start a new life, but they are stuck there.
The government actually offers affordable housing units for residents but there are too few of these units and so a lot of people are stuck living in these hellish homes while waiting for 10+ years for a government-built apartment
I currently live in a similar place in PH. Utilities are included in the rent and all tenants are sharing the 8 bathrooms (rent reaches around $25 - 35, if converted to US dollars). Though the price is worth it, you can't guarantee security since there will always be a chance that some random part-time thief would be checking your stuff even if you leave your capsule door open for a few minutes.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. Salam (Peace) ---------------------
Nice work on this, interesting choice of images, I kept pausing while watching just to look at what bits and pieces I could see and trying to make any visual sense of alot of it! what a situation to be in
As a student I lived in a 7.3m x 2.7m (19.7 square meters) apartment for several years, I didn’t complain that much as I always sat next to the window and felt like I had a bigger place, but now that I have seen this, I feel like it was rather a blessing in contrast to a literal box!
They have locks on the outside so you’re telling me if some psycho just decided to lock peoples homes and burn the building down they are able to? Like that’s not safe at all.
Because the rest of the building is a common area, the lock on the outside of your "coffin" is equivalent to the lock on your front door. So you can protect your personal possessions from theft when you leave the building. I'm sure they probably don't leave the lock on the outside when they are inside the coffin space, & maybe even have a separate latch from inside for privacy....
@Seirra Segeberg I think you’ve missed the point. He’s saying someone could maliciously lock a tenant in their space by placing a lock on the outside of the door while the tenant is inside.
In many countries, even the prisons have better living conditions than this. It's heartbreaking that some people have no choice but to live this way, especially elderly people. It's just not right.
No, I think our homeless people would benefit (especially in the winter) by making small accommodation legal again. Then they would be inside like these HKers, instead of priced out of the market and living on the street.
Living on the streets or the shelter is much worse then having your own private coffin home. These should be legalized in US cities as the homeless problem is so bad.
my mom is a family driver and former domestic helper in hk. i was lucky to visit hk back in 2014. my mom said their apartment is small so don't expect much. when i go to their apartment it was my arms length wide and two arms length long. i was like 👁️👄👁️ when i saw it. it cost about 300-350$ a month. it was a small flat separated in 8 rooms 1 cr 1 kitchen.
Looks pretty cozy tbh. I lived in the similar one for 8 months. It was located on the basement level and costed me around 150$ a month. We were poor but the community and people were great tho. Everyone was young - college students, young adults. I still fondly remember that time
These coffin homes are often found in ShamShuiPo, not YauTsimMong… anyways, it’s quite different from divided apartments, which is about 80sqt ft, with toilet and shower
@@johnjones393 Literally the OPPOSITE. Hong Kong is not "China" and it's NOT communist; it's a FREE ENTERPRISE system; in fact, it's MORE Capitalist than the U.S. is. Hong Kong is separate from China and they have an entirely different government and economic system and is free enterprise. Ergo, what you're seeing is the result of a free enterprise system and greed - not communism. 2) If you *do* want to talk about China, itself and compare poverty levels, America has a 12.8% poverty rate. China, the "communist" country's poverty rate, is just 0.7%. America's poverty rate is literally TWELVE PERCENT HIGHER than China's. But the point is, Hong Kong has a separate system and government than China's - they're free enterprise/Capitalist - not communist.
@@colinstevenson6984 It amuses me how someone so ignorant of how a commercial/ capitalist city Hong Kong is, would say poor living conditions of what we see in the video is attributable to communism 🤣🤣 Agree that the gap between poor/ rich is due to free enterprise/ capitalism. Quite sad though.
Great video, Squalid! I subscribed to your channel. One of the main reasons why Hong Kong only allows development on such a small portion of their land is that since they have very limited sources of income (15% income tax, no sales taxes), they mainly rely on land sales to generate revenue. Thus, it is in the best interest of the HK gov't to keep land prices high, so that when they do sell a small parcel, they can make a lot.
It’s $300 a month to live in a coffin. My mortgage in Indiana is $550 a month and I have a nice little 2 bed 1 bath home, 1.5 acres of land and live on a 10 acre lake. Amazing that anyone would or could ever choose to live this way
You’re very lucky, in Texas we pay $1200 a month for a 2 bedroom 1 bath apartment 💀 still thankful for what we have but no lake and no land it is expensive
@@thegreenforager2362 I’m not lucky, although I am fortunate to be raised by parents who understand real estate. I could choose to live somewhere much more expensive, I could also choose to rent instead of buying. We all have a choice. It’s a lot harder to do, but if you find a run down house with potential and buy it…you can slowly renovate it while having a very low mortgage payment and get to a point where you’re living in a very nice home for cheap. Most people just lack to motivation and drive to even believe that they can do this for themselves.
Dang. They paid almost $300 and get cramped. In my city, i paid bit more than $100 and i get way bigger room (+toilet on my own). Hongkong has a big problem in housing.
The worst parts are definitely the lack of natural light, the lack of sound privacy, and the danger, most of the rest seems like the consequence of living so closely packed. They could definitely be solved. But yeah, it sucks they have to live in such a small space, but it seems like that landlord is providing a very useful utility to the EXACT people in society who need them. Street homeless is an utterly depressing reality. They at least have shelter, warmth, food, water, electricity, showers, toilets, tv, computers, internet etc. I have faith in them.
I stayed in chunking for a month, the conditions are similar in that you get a room with a bed and no other room. The lack of natural light messes with your hormones immediately. It's no problem to live in such a small space but it's compounded by a ton of other factors, mainly poverty. I can imagine living there indefinitely, but living in poverty is much harder to imagine.
We should as Americans remember this is not a far cry from the millions of us who live in cars and RVs, and more hospitable than those who are forced to sleep on the streets, we should be united in demanding better conditions for ourselves as well as people internationally, we are as a people largely closer to this than any acceptable form of housing while millions of homes sit vacant in the possession of banks and corporations who demand increasingly unaffordable ransoms, this is nothing short of violence of conditions on a massive scale and we are entitled to self defense
Its a youtube short about a human, living in a very small space and the person speaking, talks about "using galvanized steel and wood venier" to make the room look more spacy.
This is why, as a Hongkonger, I get very angry when I see recent games glorifying "cyberpunk". True cyberpunk in the 80s and 90s, inspired by the Kowloon Walled City, was a social commentary on the unseen unfortunates who struggle to live in a high-tech city that seems bedazzling to outsiders. HK is exactly that. Unless you are wealthy, you are not really living, but merely surviving.
I am always grateful to be alive in America. This is another reason I am. There are parts of the world that just shows you how wrong things still are. Thank you for the video. Always enjoy the things you have. Because it is worse for others.
There are many people here in the west that think living like this is a good thing, and want it for us. Not for _them,_ of course. They will still get to live in their mansions, but us? Pods, coffins, animal cages, thats what _we_ will get to have if they get their way. We will own nothing and be happy. Can also look at Japan and their "capsule hotels". Thats where we are heading.
Emm, you know that there are huge number of homeless people in the United States right? Let alone those tent cities… Just be grateful for what you have now, because every countries are basically the same, there are middle income people and also there are poor to homeless people.
The United States is not exactly the most fortunate place to live in. Lots of homeless people, open drug addictions and mental illness. Be happy that you live in a particular part of the U.S. and enjoy a certain income. But there are far safer places to live.
Hong Kong government should learn from Singaporean government to provide better houses or apartments for its citizens. The bedrooms in majority of apartments in Hong Kong are too small when compared with the developed countries.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. Salam (Peace) ---------------------
Makes me appreciate what I had now. Even though I'm a doctor, my salary was so low I had to live in a room roughly 1.5x the size of those rooms in the video to save cost. At least it's dirt cheap (only 25 bucks per month, 1/8 of my salary) so I can live a modest life.
To survive in a deplorable and discouraged environment is horrendous many should reflect on their fortunate circumstances and view this as an example to strive, persevere, and attain their pinnacle, NEVER GIVE UP YOU HERE ME, YOU GOT THIS.
This breaks my heart , how these people have to live. Makes me feel guilty for living in a large home. God I come before you, I ask you, to ease life for these people . Allow them good health, food and better living conditions amen❤
I find hope in other people caring for the quality of life of others like I do. It infuriates me how people can live in extreme excess without giving a second thought about people struggling and in need of simply some relief.
This is inhumane. I’d rather die in the woods than live like this - these people are stronger than me and I hope one day their society stops ignoring them 😭
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If you got a air fryer you Gucci 🥸
Someone is ROBBING these people. If each one of those people are paying $257, someone is getting 10k per floor. That’s crazy.
Those things look to be 6’ x 3’, about 18 square feet. That’s over $14 per square foot per month. Do the math & a small 1000 square foot apartment would be well over $14,000 per month. That’s crazy
It's horrible to see anyone living like this, but the elderly is especially devastating.
Its the way the HK econamy works. Blame the brits for it. HK is a UK experiment on the pure version of Free market econamy. There is 0 tax on everything. This is excelent for bussness but terrible for the gov as there is no way for them to get money and cover the services (fire, police, hospitals, transportation ext). So the 2 major income sources are Land lease and rent from public housing. The HK gov owns all of the land and they lease it out to developers for construction.
The gov is incentivized not to allow development on the 90% of HKs land in order to jack the price and get money.
This creates an absurd land value. I think 2-3 years ago HK's gov broke a record, they leased a plot for 1 skyscraper for 50 years in exchange for 6.5 bilion USD. So think how much the prices in that building are going to be jacked witch such a handycap of startup cost from the land alone.
@@mowtow90 wow thank you wasn't aware of how any of that worked, although I heard hong kong is one of the most expensive cities to live in. Now I get why.
This is what uneducated college liberals want for us when they beg for “affordable housing”, and a socialized economy. Welcome to communism.
@@brandonholladay8004 yep I'm well aware of that!
I wish we had affordable housing like this in the US. They leave you out in the street to freeze in tents here
This makes my one bedroom apartment seem like a villa.
$12K 60 months ago I bought my place. Damaged by hurricane and run down I was happy to get it because it beats living in a car. I refuse to pay rent. I bought a 30' rv trailer to live in , the city said I get caught sleeping in it I'll have to remove it in 36 hours. So I use that for storage. Saving money to have a small house moved on here. Many of the houses here are falling apart and the city wants to act as if there's character in doing things their way. When were shooting for food in the coming years they will not be working.
Indeed
Haha. Same
Perspective for sure
Same
This is horrifying but really made me think about how fortunate my life is. At least I can stretch my legs out fully in my bed and stand in my room. Thank you for shedding light on this topic.
Definitely! Crazy how many things we take for granted and how much we complain while there’s people living like this.
It's not terrifying. In America, these homes are illegal so people have to live and die on the street due to cold.
What the fuck does our fortune matter for. Just because we're fortunate doesn't change the fact that this is the disgusting reality for thousands upon thousands of people. I cant sit down be thankful for what I have knowing that there's so many hurting people in such devastating conditions. Makes me feel like an absolutely worthless fucking pig. our stories of Fortune don't matter our situations are super rare and theirs are extremely common and thats what hurts. I'd give it all away in a heartbeat if I could to someone who actually deserves it. Cause I don't.
FELT. 💯
Horrifying yes but what is the alternative.
It is better than having homeless people live on the street or tents in public parks as is commonplace in America.
This is definitely a fire hazard. When they mentioned bed bugs...OMG. I hope a solution to this problem is found. The fact that the title was NOT clickbait at all. My heart goes out to those living in these conditions.
Yes, I was wondering about that, then he mentioned them. Having had bed bugs and spending and losing thousands to get rid of them over around a 6-month period, they're a nightmare. These people wouldn't have any hope without moving 😥
Solution?
This is the model of what america wants its working class citizens to be in.
@@JimLahey-o5djust the dems and rinos want this
@@JimLahey-o5d Nonsense.
What do you hope? That china is going to give more space to low income for free?
The idea that one of those places can catch fire while its full of people sends shivers down my spine
It would be worse than the Grenfell tower fire
😢😱 I hear ya! Man-o-Man, all of those floors that are in the high rises....seems like well over 100!
Do think it hasn’t happened. its just probably been covered up.
That's what I was thinking a fire would spark a inferno in seconds and kill lot's of people that are living like that I'm surprised there are no laws for that but it is China and they don't care for anyone except themselves
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
Salam (Peace) ---------------------
This is so sad and horrible…those poor people deserve better. :(
Yeah and its under the control of "communist state" , such a communism .
@@AkiZukiLenn they're communist politically but they're a capitalist country economically.
And you probably vote for democrats. They want this for the American people.
Coffin homes are a good thing besides show no sadness to those that are convicted criminals as well as drug addicts
@@Mario87456 wtf is wrong with you?
I imagine these places are not air conditioned, which will make them absolutely unbearable.
There's an air conditioner at 5:09.
That being said, these places only have a single air conditioner to ventilate every coffin home, which really sucks.
ALL THE KUNG PO FARTING....
@@harryballsacky Everybody was kung po farting each sniff had me crying....
lmao you know most of europe does not have air conditioning...right?
@@Chadgigington We don't live like this, though. There's no comparison to be made here.
I live in a tiny house, but it feels like a palace looking at this. Glad for what i have
I have been homeless I've lived in a car I have been through a lot and it breaks my heart to see anybody no matter what they have did to get themselves there no one should ever have to live that way it's heartbreaking
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
Salam (Peace) ---------------------
only a few videos and a million views... i feel spit on
Some of the people would be single and may have no family or job.
They would have to go sit in a cafe or go for a walk just to escape.
That is if they could walk. Such social injustices.
....But, you'd rather that they be homeless (or reduced to living in their car)?
That's better than having a cubicle to live in?!?
As a person who has ALSO been homeless (and lived in a car -- a VW Bug and later a Toyota Corolla), I can assure you it would be better off to have to have a rented cubicle (especially if you have access to a sink and toilet).
And YOU know this! ....You know that places have prohibitions on "car camping"; you know that sleeping rough in the streets is extremely insecure and that your stuff will be stolen if you leave it to go to the bathroom or anything.
@@MrJm323I only watch these videos and read comments, I haven't been homeless (and I pray I won't) but I think you deserve better than this
I just saw someone post a video of this on an IG reel. How heartbreaking. Even prison has better living quarters than this. Those poor people. 😞
@Kailey selin I saw something on IG which lead me too search on YT so sad.
This "Coffin" is far better than that of their actual prison's there otherwise they'd all choose to be or go to said prison, use your brain seriously!.. It is very sad how they have to live while working extremely hard for next to nothing and nowhere near what their efforts are worth but you saying that a literal prison is better or that they'd be treated better is a truly insane thing to say!.. If those living this way could escape such a hell they would which should lead people to think about who or what's making it all happen and why it's keeping them in such conditions and the answer is obvious. They/These residents and civilians cannot or dare not speak out or life will become far worse and that is a truth that anyone in the country and even outsiders refuse to stand against. Even me saying that their government/politicians should be ashamed can do nothing to help them VERY REGRETFULLY but I am only one person. I hope above all that such strong amazingly hard working people will be able to gain a life they truly deserve and that the government and it's scum politicians will be punished sooner rather than later!.
@@imhappyandyou.4003 I think I'd choose american prison over a Hong Kong coffin home.
this dude got offended over a comment 💀
@@dylansiri144 I think you didn't comprehend what I commented so I'll try it again, They have NO choice sadly and this "Coffin" is far better than THEIR prisons aka the prisons in THEIR COUNTRY..
And even if they were in an American prison they'd still be getting fucked but in a different cheek splitting way lol . Hope that clears up any misunderstanding or comprehension issue you may have had. LOL
This is degrading. These are human beings. Let someone who lives in a beautiful home go see what it's like. No one should have to live in such horrid conditions. Feel so sad for them.
Antinatalism definitely needs to be pushed hard.
Human breeding has gone too far!
Real human suffering is right in front of you.
You Breeders refuse to face reality.
@@winterbreak7217 cause they like to fug?
Ever been to Hong Kong? People outnumber available housing spaces. That's why these things exist.
@@winterbreak7217 lol i don't think they have access to birth control like that bruh
@@Blaking_Bad They have, you don't even need to see a doctor to get birth control.
Little timmy saved up 400 dollars for this coffin sized apparent, galvanized square steel and screws he borrowed from his aunt ensue.
The only reason I clicked on this video was to find comments like this. I didn’t even watch it lmao.
LMFAO 😭
This is the most brain rotted section I've seen. Grow up, you guys.
It's horrible, I must say. And I thought the rent would be a lot cheaper at about maybe 50 dollars a month. Considering the minimum space and no ceiling fan and just a light bulb. So electric bils couldn't be high unless they put like a non energy conserving air cond or something. I don't think desk fans would be too harmful. Am I thinking this right?
@@-DEATH_LORDstop sucking pipe then
I have few co-workers from HK, what they do is buy apartments in HK and renting it out for huge amount of money while they work here in the US. They said Canadian/HK citizens have more apartments rent outs. When greediness takes away humanity, this is what happens.
Lots of HK people do this as well, they buy houses, divided them into smaller flats and rent them out in a unreasonably expensive price to maximise their profit
This is drug addicts and the mentally ill living in buildings instead of on the street. It is an improvement compared to America where cheap accommodation is illegal, creating homelessness by pricing people out.
@@-.______.- yeah its disgusting
America is taking a page from this book because this is starting to happen to us slowly
Long time ago in uk
I can tell you about coffin living. I was homeless in Tampa, FL many many years ago. There was a rooming house/flop house on Florida Ave called The Good Samaritan Inn. Ran by the nicest guy Christian man you would ever wanna meet (never even heard this man say a cuss word or get angry) John Watson. He had rooms some had bathrooms alot didn't so you shared with others. If you were really down on your luck (like I was)and you had $8 in your pocket...you could get a bed in the bunkroom. I tried to help as much as I could while I stayed there and John helped me get some public benefits I qualified for. Good Man. Rough living though
I live in tampa FL. How long ago was this?
I feel ya man, been there before.. I've got to say though, if this is how EVERY would be homeless lives in HK, it's way better than the US.
@@therocinante3443 damn you're right
@@ThatGuy-eq9mz Early 1990s. Just spoke to John a coupla weeks ago. He still running the place as far as I know
@@TheHiredGun187 cool. Thanks man
This makes me 100x more grateful to born in Malaysia, God blessed my family. Hong Kong is a richer place than the entirety of Malaysia but at least I live in a proper house with a proper and spacious backyard compared to Hong Kongers.
x silap dah ada bangunan sama mcm hong kong dkt malaysia, siap bangga lagi bertemakan “hong kong style”.. x tau lah kat mana.. tapi dah siap. ntah siapa yg luluskan
These are the poorest of the most mentally ill and drug addicted HKers. If you were poor, mentally unstable and unable to work in Malaysia, you would not have the best accommodation either.
@@Rizal-em2ki Penang kot.
@@azhariarif Penang house price and rent goees brrrrrrrr.........haiya....... sometimes I wish I was a bit rich........having no permanent house and the threat of being a homeless make me feel depressed.......
Humble bragging lol
Little Johnny ate steamed buns for 10 years and saved up for an apartment in Hong Kong.
Lol.
He installed galvanised steel with strong joints borrowed from trusted aunty!
@@Chris-v6b1n it’s this one viral series of people setting up hilariously small homes and expanding with galvanized square steel
My home is modest but I am very thankful for it. No one should have to live this way it’s inhumane.
Probably looks a little less modest after watching this at least lol
I GOT 1/3 OF AN ACRE...I WORKED MY BUTT OFF FOR IT...LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT....
@@harryballsacky I agree. We have 10 acres and have worked for every square inch of it.
I assume you live in the US. Do you Know there are villages of people living in tents just outside of factorys they work in. Sure most are addicts who rather blow their check on their addiction than a place to "live" so what is the difference here? All people really n3ed is a place to sleep and do your drugs in.
@@harryballsackyyou were more privileged from the beginning. Being born in a country that allows you to advance and have a higher quality of life and abundance of space/land. Hong Kong not so much.
What a fire trap. I feel sorry for those residents.
YOU SPELLED " FART TRAP " WRONG
Only thing I could think about sad as hell
Keep possessions to a minimum !
Exactamundo. I think the old ancient Spartans lived like these 😀@@yanliew4027
I just couldn't stop imagining my family trying to live there..
It really puts things into perspective, and makes me grateful for the lives my family members have. Even if it's not the ones they dream about.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
Salam (Peace) ---------------------
Man I need something like this when I think life is too hard
As a person with major depression this looks like a nightmare for me. I don’t think I’d live long living like that
my grandma used to work for this rich lady who lived in hong kong as basically her nanny at one point. i used to think it was so cool when she would tell stories of taking the ladies kids to all these expensive trips in/out of hong kong, but my grandma said it wasnt all glamorous . it saddened her how obvious the wealth gap is in hong kong and how normalized it is , and a lot of it came from interacting w the locals outside of the gated community the lady stayed at
get granny to hook em up with rich single moms
The wealth gap.
That wealth gap is coming to the USA soon,
This is where our America is heading too
obviously its coming here to the usa. its practically been here all the time. "the rich gets richer, the poor get poorer" has been the human race m.o. since the beginning of civilization. its just expressed more vividly in alot of Old World countries/cities, and war torn places & corrupt governments. but believe that wealth gap is here already. been here. and will get worst by time.
And it sadly hits many elderly, which are unable to or don't want to move to other cities anymore.
Thank Jesus for what we hade
Move to village maybe, why rely on cities
@@fleurite772 sorry I dont understand what are you saying. So you mean that it's not convenient living in countryside? Then govt should make it convenient
@@MrIcaru5 there’s too many people dude 😂.
Same in South Korea
This is just too sad from a human aspect. At this point, it's better off to commit a non violent crime and go to jail. You'll have more space, access to showers, 3 meals a day etc.
That not how things work, you can't get a job easily beacause they have a record show you were a criminal. killing, stealing...doesn't matter, you will be invisible to employer
That’s if the jails don’t become overcrowded
Exactly my thought. Prisoners here in U.S. live better than most people in the world thanks to taxpayers money.
At this point I honestly feel you're just better off offing yourself, why struggle to live everyday for such a miserable existence?
This is what you can do if you're homeless in the US, because cheap accommodation like this is illegal.
this is honestly a complete nightmare to witness. Imagine the additional toll on your mental well being in a place like that. They deserve better. That's worse living than prison!!
Shame on the Hong Kongolese for treating their elderly this way.
I lived in Hong Kong for four years. I saw some of these buildings where they had these cage homes. It’s sickening because there are so many rich people too living in HK. They only care about themselves. Their own families. Not about others. Such a wide divide between rich and poor. I saw. HK is extremely expensive. Especially for housing. It’s insane. It puts London and NYC to shame. When I was living there I kept wondering how does anyone survive here? Not counting the rich of course.
and hou did you live there? I suppose theres some kind of middle class between the ultra rich and those poor souls in the video
@@capitanDakkar of course there's middle class and also people with different economic status.
The housing problem of Hong Kong is very complicated, and it seems that there would never be a solution.
So sad, as a Hongkonger, we really could do nothing to help the lower class people. 😔
It isn't the rich's responsibility to support the poor, it is their money but a little is nice
@@Tyrannosaurus_rex. your comment is the exact reason why humans are not worth saving.
@@cloudtam9931 yeah I expected that this issue was extremely complicated. It’s awful situation for so many people.
A lot of people though see extremely inequality and think that the cause of poverty is the existence of extreme wealth but that’s overly simplistic
I lived in Hong Kong for most of my life. I know people that live in these and for the most part people are okay with it. It is common to have a family of four living in 450 sq.ft so when a single guy or girl reaches late teens and early twenties and sees one of these then it's almost a win-win as the rent is quite cheap (compared to bigger 300 sq.ft small apartments) and they see it as their private space. HK'ers typically work long days and will eat out so these coffins are places to sleep, shower and use the toilet. I don't think that they are fit for humans, it's horrific, but when you've spent all your life living in a tiny bunk bed, with your parents literally on the other side of the room, these suddenly seem like your own space.
Bro this is just Stockholm Syndromes. No one should be forced to live like this.
its ok for them because the chinese propaganda machine implanted their hive mind thinking into them
Same sh1t here in the USA except they sleep on the street or in a tent, hell some of them coffin apartment buildings are nicer then apartments building here in USA.
A bug's life
Hong kong: a rich personn dream place, a low income personn nightmare
Europe : a rich personn nightmare, a low income personn paradise 😂😂😂😂
in 1990 kowloon walled city had a population of around 50,000, or a density of nearly 5 million people per square mile. hong kong has areas that are going down this route and will eventually become lawless self-sustaining communities because the proper authorities aren't paying attention. I think many of the biggest, most built-up, most populated cities on earth are going to meet this fate in the end- they will become simply unliveable for a huge underclass that can barely secure necessities.
I’m not even surprised if that’s what’s gonna happen
This is depressing to see. :<
When I went to Hong Kong 4 years ago, I was fascinated by these "monster buildings" but I didn't know that this was really squeezed inside.
It's really sad to know this one from this video. Thank you for sharing.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
Salam (Peace) ---------------------
@@thotslayer9914 holy fuck u are down tremendous
Most are not like this
my 1 room home, looks like a mansion now!!!
always be thankful for what you got 🙌
Thank you for making this Vedic so that the world can realise how the underprivileged suffer and help is so much needed ! Well done.
I can’t help but absolutely despise those who buy out tens of homes and rent them at extortionate prices whilst those actually living in the city can’t afford one so have to resort to living in absolutely inhumane conditions!
They are a cancer.
T H I S
@@JT_Saenzit’s happening in Burlington,. Every house sold near the airport lately is rented to immigrants who don’t have much other choice than to pay the exorbitant rent! Dogwood Avenue is that example of which I talk about. We’re running out of room.
@@MrReymoclif714
OMG! What the actual hell?!
It’s happening in Texas, as well! Foreign and Nationwide Corporations are buying out full-fledged neighborhoods and raising their mortgages as a result! I get it’s Capitalism, but like….there’s gotta be a limit on how much a corp. can extort the common man!
Happens here in the uk, landlords will buy up entire streets and rent them out for extortionate prices. Housing is treated like an investment rather than a basic living necessity.
Capitalist monsters!
Christ, and i complained about spending quarantine in my 700 square foot apartment. I cant imagine what hell that must’ve been in those conditions.
@@manicsurfing go off i guess
Christ?
700 square feet (65 square meters) seems like villa or mansion for these poor souls
Yo that sounds like a palace! My room is 20 square meters but there is quite a few pieces of furniture
@@johnny2100 you spelled it correctly
I am now thankful for having a moderately sized bedroom.
How does an account as big as yours only manage to get one other like? Lol
Damn only 4 likes
Heresy!
Hiii .....breadboys👋👋👋
It is incredibly disrespectful for a big and undoubtedly wealthy and well off youtuber to make fun of and mock this situation and these poor people's living conditions. Shame on you.
This make our homes look like heaven . Appreciate what you have because someone else doesn't .
I live in a Room and Board House , I share bathroom , and I have a nice size room but no access to a kitchen so I fast food alot , Now watching this I actually feel Thankful to live in The America the Great Country and have what I have
I’ve been in bad living situations, homeless, etc. so I can’t say that I’d be ungrateful to have any space that I could call my own - no matter how small and badly kept - when struggling financially. They conditions may not be great, but I’m glad that these people have somewhere that’s theirs and somewhat protected from people and weather. Hopefully better solutions will be found 🙏
From a similar background myself. If they had places like this in major cities for $200-$300 I'd be pretty darn satisfied and the big headed people can keep their 4 bedroom homes to themselves.
It’s not theirs, they rent that shit hole
In America they’re trying to convince us that this is a hip, futuristic way of living
i hate the antichrist
They need to layoff the Cyberpunk media
This is just degrading. It hurts my soul to see the folk living here, they’re normal people just like us. They don’t deserve this.
don't worry they have democracy China doesnt
Asian people moment
This is what you Pronatalists want.
Why are you complaining?
absolutely despicable characters in the replies here
Its inhumane and disgusting. Makes me appreciate 2,000 square feet and a huge, private backyard even more. I own one of the smaller houses in my neighborhood as I live in one of the richest neighborhoods in my city and jog past literal mansions every morning and find myself wanting them. And then I think about how I am living better than 99% of the global population.
@devanov3103 The echo in my house sucks, plus it's really hard to clean it all! 😭😭
it’s cold on mt. Olympus
This is absolutely horrible. No human being deserves to live like this. The people who live in these so-called homes are so vulnerable. They deserve so much better. I'm speechless...
This is terrifying, and there's a certain gentleman in Switzerland who would like everyone to live this way
It can't be terrifying. You WILL be happy.
We he also be living this way ?
@@cmcspeed5He doesn't think he will, but he would. He THINKS he's a big money elite, but the people with the real money would absorb his assets and put him in a pod with the rest of the plebes.
Who?
Glad to see another video from you. Keep making these!
These coffin homes are inhumane. But your surprise at people waiting 4.5 years for public housing shocked me. Here in my area of Melbourne Australia, the wait for public housing is 25 years plus…
4.5 yrs for ppl with family.
A single person's wait time can be more than 30 years... 🤐🤐🤐
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
Salam (Peace) ---------------------
@@food4444lyfeterrible times. How are families going to wait and survive for 4.5 years just waiting to get a house? They stay on streets? I mean 4.5 years is way too long
@@chloecosmina1243 Well... parents do work ( low wages ) or they can get some sort of govn't subsidy during the wait. But still.... 😖😖😖
@@food4444lyfe yea apparently it isn’t enough right?
I slept in a walk-in closet for a few years that was bigger than this. It was small but At least i could fit a bed, desk, bureau and night stand in it.
That is what free market economy looks like if you apply it to essentials like housing. The people are priced out of the market of livable homes, and the "market" offered only these coffin homes.
Hong Kong is the closest to capitalism and I don’t want any of that. Mixed economy is honestly the best mode
Well it sucks because in an ideal world, these people should have the ability to travel to a different country and start a new life, but they are stuck there.
The government actually offers affordable housing units for residents but there are too few of these units and so a lot of people are stuck living in these hellish homes while waiting for 10+ years for a government-built apartment
Damn bro this video makes you start to be grateful with the room or home that you have. 🙏🏻
This is heart wrenching 😢😢
Excellent work Xi!! Keep it up🎉🎉
This was happening long before the handover...
I currently live in a similar place in PH. Utilities are included in the rent and all tenants are sharing the 8 bathrooms (rent reaches around $25 - 35, if converted to US dollars). Though the price is worth it, you can't guarantee security since there will always be a chance that some random part-time thief would be checking your stuff even if you leave your capsule door open for a few minutes.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
Salam (Peace) ---------------------
Nice work on this, interesting choice of images, I kept pausing while watching just to look at what bits and pieces I could see and trying to make any visual sense of alot of it! what a situation to be in
Videos like these remind us how blessed and lucky we are.
As a student I lived in a 7.3m x 2.7m (19.7 square meters) apartment for several years, I didn’t complain that much as I always sat next to the window and felt like I had a bigger place, but now that I have seen this, I feel like it was rather a blessing in contrast to a literal box!
Same bro.. mine was 25 Sq
Sometimes you need a new perspective to be thankful for what you have and not take it for granted.
They have locks on the outside so you’re telling me if some psycho just decided to lock peoples homes and burn the building down they are able to? Like that’s not safe at all.
Because the rest of the building is a common area, the lock on the outside of your "coffin" is equivalent to the lock on your front door. So you can protect your personal possessions from theft when you leave the building. I'm sure they probably don't leave the lock on the outside when they are inside the coffin space, & maybe even have a separate latch from inside for privacy....
@Seirra Segeberg I think you’ve missed the point. He’s saying someone could maliciously lock a tenant in their space by placing a lock on the outside of the door while the tenant is inside.
Assuming the lock can't be unlocked indoors like literally every door ever?
I would cry if I wan't in such shock right now.... This is beyond horrible...our homeless here have it better and I never thought I'de ever say that.
In many countries, even the prisons have better living conditions than this. It's heartbreaking that some people have no choice but to live this way, especially elderly people. It's just not right.
Innocent Animals are kept in cages without any crime that is horrible
Our homeless don't have it better than anyone.
No, I think our homeless people would benefit (especially in the winter) by making small accommodation legal again. Then they would be inside like these HKers, instead of priced out of the market and living on the street.
Living on the streets or the shelter is much worse then having your own private coffin home. These should be legalized in US cities as the homeless problem is so bad.
my mom is a family driver and former domestic helper in hk. i was lucky to visit hk back in 2014. my mom said their apartment is small so don't expect much. when i go to their apartment it was my arms length wide and two arms length long. i was like 👁️👄👁️ when i saw it. it cost about 300-350$ a month. it was a small flat separated in 8 rooms 1 cr 1 kitchen.
Do you mean your Mom lives in ONE of those partitioned 8 rooms units and shares ONE kit with others????
@@shahonchen6661 yes she does it's like living in a large coffin. life sucks
Looks pretty cozy tbh. I lived in the similar one for 8 months. It was located on the basement level and costed me around 150$ a month. We were poor but the community and people were great tho. Everyone was young - college students, young adults. I still fondly remember that time
if this was a horror movie it would be scary to watch, but for 1000s of people this is a horror movie that is real life.
I can only think about how a major fire would rip this place apart and how many would be trapped inside.
2:40 the poor bloke there, perspective wise he looks deceased and it hit me hard, he may be sleeping, but you can see the toll it has on them.
I had to play it back to make sure my eyes weren’t deceiving me. That was very hard to see.
Yup, I couldn't believe it either 🥺.@@s.rogers5773
It really scared me he looked dead but i think he was sleeping just emaciated and exhausted
Drug addict, probably.
I'm done complaining. I'm so blessed..God bless everyone..
These coffin homes are often found in ShamShuiPo, not YauTsimMong… anyways, it’s quite different from divided apartments, which is about 80sqt ft, with toilet and shower
Thank you for telling others what HK is really like... I really hope something will change
It's a communist regime, what do you expect to change? Maybe you should fly over there yourself and help those people out.
@@johnjones393 well said
lol
@@johnjones393 Literally the OPPOSITE. Hong Kong is not "China" and it's NOT communist; it's a FREE ENTERPRISE system; in fact, it's MORE Capitalist than the U.S. is. Hong Kong is separate from China and they have an entirely different government and economic system and is free enterprise. Ergo, what you're seeing is the result of a free enterprise system and greed - not communism. 2) If you *do* want to talk about China, itself and compare poverty levels, America has a 12.8% poverty rate. China, the "communist" country's poverty rate, is just 0.7%. America's poverty rate is literally TWELVE PERCENT HIGHER than China's. But the point is, Hong Kong has a separate system and government than China's - they're free enterprise/Capitalist - not communist.
@@colinstevenson6984 It amuses me how someone so ignorant of how a commercial/ capitalist city Hong Kong is, would say poor living conditions of what we see in the video is attributable to communism 🤣🤣 Agree that the gap between poor/ rich is due to free enterprise/ capitalism. Quite sad though.
Great video, Squalid! I subscribed to your channel.
One of the main reasons why Hong Kong only allows development on such a small portion of their land is that since they have very limited sources of income (15% income tax, no sales taxes), they mainly rely on land sales to generate revenue. Thus, it is in the best interest of the HK gov't to keep land prices high, so that when they do sell a small parcel, they can make a lot.
So you’re saying issuing sales tax will actually fix this problem?
Singapore also has really low taxes, Macao too. The lack of taxes is just an excuse.
It’s $300 a month to live in a coffin. My mortgage in Indiana is $550 a month and I have a nice little 2 bed 1 bath home, 1.5 acres of land and live on a 10 acre lake. Amazing that anyone would or could ever choose to live this way
You’re very lucky, in Texas we pay $1200 a month for a 2 bedroom 1 bath apartment 💀 still thankful for what we have but no lake and no land it is expensive
@@thegreenforager2362 I’m not lucky, although I am fortunate to be raised by parents who understand real estate. I could choose to live somewhere much more expensive, I could also choose to rent instead of buying. We all have a choice. It’s a lot harder to do, but if you find a run down house with potential and buy it…you can slowly renovate it while having a very low mortgage payment and get to a point where you’re living in a very nice home for cheap. Most people just lack to motivation and drive to even believe that they can do this for themselves.
@@JerryGrannanMusic Well said, Jerry.
Yea right, cause they chose the coffin instead of renting a house, what dummies
Dang. They paid almost $300 and get cramped. In my city, i paid bit more than $100 and i get way bigger room (+toilet on my own). Hongkong has a big problem in housing.
Because Hong Kong has no land to build anymore housing.
I saw a documentary about this here on YT some year ago. A Truly inhumane situation.
Count your blessings every day. People weren't created to live like this
Little John saved up 50 billion dollars as a brick layer and finally had enough money to buy a apartment
The worst parts are definitely the lack of natural light, the lack of sound privacy, and the danger, most of the rest seems like the consequence of living so closely packed.
They could definitely be solved. But yeah, it sucks they have to live in such a small space, but it seems like that landlord is providing a very useful utility to the EXACT people in society who need them. Street homeless is an utterly depressing reality. They at least have shelter, warmth, food, water, electricity, showers, toilets, tv, computers, internet etc. I have faith in them.
Makes you appreciate the codes here in US
I stayed in chunking for a month, the conditions are similar in that you get a room with a bed and no other room. The lack of natural light messes with your hormones immediately. It's no problem to live in such a small space but it's compounded by a ton of other factors, mainly poverty. I can imagine living there indefinitely, but living in poverty is much harder to imagine.
Imagine trying to rush out of your room during a fire.
I lived here in hong kong for more than six years now, never thought there would be such a housing conditions like this.
Watching this should make most of us greatful for what we have.
We should as Americans remember this is not a far cry from the millions of us who live in cars and RVs, and more hospitable than those who are forced to sleep on the streets, we should be united in demanding better conditions for ourselves as well as people internationally, we are as a people largely closer to this than any acceptable form of housing while millions of homes sit vacant in the possession of banks and corporations who demand increasingly unaffordable ransoms, this is nothing short of violence of conditions on a massive scale and we are entitled to self defense
nothing some galvanized square steel can’t fix
What do you mean by that?
Its a youtube short about a human, living in a very small space and the person speaking, talks about "using galvanized steel and wood venier" to make the room look more spacy.
Don't forget your wood veneer
I live in a two door hatchback car. Im 6’3”These look positively spacious in comparison. It’s all about perspective.
Exactamundo Truth.
You don't have to go that far to see this, you can see pretty similar in London.
This is why, as a Hongkonger, I get very angry when I see recent games glorifying "cyberpunk". True cyberpunk in the 80s and 90s, inspired by the Kowloon Walled City, was a social commentary on the unseen unfortunates who struggle to live in a high-tech city that seems bedazzling to outsiders. HK is exactly that. Unless you are wealthy, you are not really living, but merely surviving.
I am always grateful to be alive in America. This is another reason I am. There are parts of the world that just shows you how wrong things still are. Thank you for the video. Always enjoy the things you have. Because it is worse for others.
If we keep voting for democrats and their socialist policies we will be living like this very soon. WAKE UP PEOPLE!
There are many people here in the west that think living like this is a good thing, and want it for us. Not for _them,_ of course. They will still get to live in their mansions, but us? Pods, coffins, animal cages, thats what _we_ will get to have if they get their way. We will own nothing and be happy.
Can also look at Japan and their "capsule hotels". Thats where we are heading.
Emm, you know that there are huge number of homeless people in the United States right? Let alone those tent cities… Just be grateful for what you have now, because every countries are basically the same, there are middle income people and also there are poor to homeless people.
The United States is not exactly the most fortunate place to live in. Lots of homeless people, open drug addictions and mental illness. Be happy that you live in a particular part of the U.S. and enjoy a certain income. But there are far safer places to live.
Renting a room in the states runs around 4-600 bucks in most states
very well done video , made me emotional
This looks alright compared to the way some people are living in Portland and Seattle.
you deserve more subs. keep it up
Hong Kong government should learn from Singaporean government to provide better houses or apartments for its citizens. The bedrooms in majority of apartments in Hong Kong are too small when compared with the developed countries.
Watching this video makes very thankful for what I have. My apartment look like a house compared to this. This makes me reconsider my thinking
Same hear
Am I the only one that thinks that the first picture where the video begins looks cozy?
What an unfortunate situation of those people, I wonder if there would be enough housing for them all one day..
I like how it's called a coffin home if it's in Hong Kong but it's "living a dream" if it's in NYC. And yes there are apartments in NYC the same size.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
Salam (Peace) ---------------------
Living in the "Galvenized square steel"
Is smaller than the galvanized square steel houses...
AND NO WINDOWS TO EXPAND FROM
Makes me appreciate what I had now. Even though I'm a doctor, my salary was so low I had to live in a room roughly 1.5x the size of those rooms in the video to save cost. At least it's dirt cheap (only 25 bucks per month, 1/8 of my salary) so I can live a modest life.
To survive in a deplorable and discouraged environment is horrendous many should reflect on their fortunate circumstances and view this as an example to strive, persevere, and attain their pinnacle, NEVER GIVE UP YOU HERE ME, YOU GOT THIS.
I can hardly imagine living in such a tiny personal space.
Just get eco friendly wood veneers, galvanized steel squares and borrow some screws from your aunt
This breaks my heart , how these people have to live. Makes me feel guilty for living in a large home. God I come before you, I ask you, to ease life for these people . Allow them good health, food and better living conditions amen❤
2:40 bloody hell😳
I find hope in other people caring for the quality of life of others like I do. It infuriates me how people can live in extreme excess without giving a second thought about people struggling and in need of simply some relief.
My tiny two bedroom ranch home just became a mansion!
I really feel for the people that have no choice but too live this way.
This is inhumane. I’d rather die in the woods than live like this - these people are stronger than me and I hope one day their society stops ignoring them 😭
You’re not in their shoes, stop saying you’d rather because you’re living better than them
I live in normal sized appartment 3 rooms bathroom kitchen basement and balcony and i perfer going to nature you feel much better
nothing galvanized steel and wood veneer can´t fix
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