Hong Kong is an expensive city. Because of the high rents, some people can’t even afford to go out.

Mr Chan lives in a rooftop slum. Being 80 years old, now he lives since two years in a seven square meters big cottage on a rooftop.

Living on Hong Kongs rooftops is not always easy. Usually the people know and help  each other.

Rooftop Slums are illegal. But usually they are tolerated because the government doesn’t know a solution.

Mr Fen lives in a tiny shack next to Mr Chan. The whole room has just enough space to contain a small bed.

Dominated by neon lights, Mongkok counts to the most densely populated places on earth: More than 130.000 people per square kilometer.

Many people from mainland China who move to Hong Kong in hope for a better job, are not informed about the housing problems. In consequence, they have trouble to find a flat or pay their rents. However, Mrs Cheung is happy in Hong Kong because she lives together with her daughter and husband.

More and more flats are reconstructed to „subdivided flats“, what means the units are subdivided into different individual small rooms. So a building has more flats and provides space for more people

Many people still are living at their parents place even if they are getting older. For Eric, 30 years old, it's much more affordable to live at home than moving out.

New building blocks are built everywhere in Hong Kong.

In the MTR, Hong Kongs subway, people shouldn’t be claustrophobic.

Cathy is living in a subdivided flat in Sham Shui Po. Her flat, which contains a small bathroom and a kitchen unit, has a size of roughly ten square meters.

Fortunately her type of micro flat still counts to the bigger and advanced ones. But as an artist with low income, she can barely effort the rent of more than 5000 HKD.

Sham Shui Po is the poorest district of Hong Kong. Most of the rooftop slums are here and some other places, because the old apartment buildings make living on rooftops possible.

Mr Yip lives together with his wife on a roof. They are glad to have an own kitchen. Many people there have to share kitchen and sanitary equipment.

In case of replacing old buildings by new ones, more and more rooftop slums get evacuated. Many of the residents will have trouble in finding another affordable living space.

Reconstructions of rooftop slums and subdivided flats are often dangerous. For example, they do not comply with fire safety regulations.

The son of family Chau does not have much space for playing. Often, renting agencies indicate their flat bigger than they actually are.

Mr Chau is still a student. In future he wants to earn enough money for beeing able to afford a bigger flat for his family.

Flatsharing in Hong Kong is not very common. However, Martina and her flatmate where lucky in find an affordable flat. As the flat has no interent connection and her private room has just five square metres, she doesn’t spend there much time.