Living space getting smaller and smaller.

I did some research about our problem and found that not only in Singapore, in other countries and cities, which living space become a big problem of people’s livelihood. Particularly in HongKong, the situation is the same as Singapore, even more serious.

Similarities and differences between Singapore and HongKong

Similarities:

Both are located in Southeast Asia, in the same time zone; main ethnic is Chinese; All have been ruled by Britain; very small on the map of world; are the major financial. trade and shipping center, advanced in the shipping and aviation; have a lot of multinational companies, economic prosperous; are highly dependent on the external trade, are world renowned tourist city; are facing with problem of ageing, population and low birth rate; are facing new competition of surrounding cities……

Differences:

By 2012, Singapore’s land area is 710 square kilometres, population is 5312000, and Hong Kong area is 1104 square kilometres, population is 7155000. In land area and population, HongKong has more than Singapore. Per capita living space of Singapore is 30 square meters, but for HongKong, is 15 square meters. Although Hong Kong’s land area is larger, but HongKong has more mountains, so that the living area is only 20% of whole land area, the population density is highest in the world. However, although Singapore has smaller area, which is mostly flat with few hills, high utilisation of land, the larger per capita living space. 

My Mom, aunty, uncle and grandparent all live in Hong Kong, but my uncle's home is a typical Hong kong citizen's home.

My uncle and aunt live with my grandparent and theirs 3 daughters. 1 living room, 1 kitchen, 1 toilet, 2 rooms.

This is living room, also is dinning room.

There are 2 rooms, and behind the wall on the right is toilet.

Small kitchen and my grandmother^^

This is so called Home Ownership Scheme flat in Hong Kong

The Home Ownership Scheme (HOS; Chinese: 居者有其屋計劃) is a subsidized-sale programme of public housing in Hong Kong managed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. It was instituted in the late 1970s as part of the government policy for public housing with two aims - to encourage better-off tenants of rental flats to vacate those flats for re-allocation to families in greater housing need; and also to provide an opportunity for home ownership to families unable to afford to buy in the private sector.

Under the scheme, the government sells apartment flats to eligible public housing tenants and to low-income residents at prices below the market level, with discounts usually between 30 and 40 percent,.^[1] It restricts resale of the units in the second-hand market to other families who qualify or, on the open market, after payment of a premium equal to the updated value of the discount given on the original purchase. As an ancillary scheme, the Housing Authority also entered into arrangements with local private developers to provide property for sale under the Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS).

Between 1995 and 2000, the Hong Kong Housing Society also offered the Sandwich Class Housing Scheme for lower middle class families whose incomes exceeded the Home Ownership Scheme requirements, but still had trouble affording private housing. In 2003, falling real estate values led the government to pause the construction of new Home Ownership Scheme estates indefinitely.

From Wiki.