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Albert wrote:The story is pretty much the same here in Toronto, the government basically messed up the real estate market. Plus on top of that you have all the foreigners dumping their capital into local real estate but not actually living here full time.
Bedspace apartments started to appear more commonly during the 1950s and 60s. During the Chinese Civil War, a large number of Chinese mainlanders migrated to Hong Kong, and this, along with a surge in birth rates due to the prospering economy, caused the population to dramatically increase from 2,015,300 in 1951 to 3,129,648 in 1961.[7] In an attempt to cope with the housing demand, the Hong Kong Government started to build several public housing estates. However, the government could not handle the extra burden brought by the Chinese migrant workers, and there were no housing or labour protection policies in place at that time. Cage homes thus became popular among migrant workers, as the rental fee was low.[8]
Today, people still live in cage homes because the Hong Kong government has instituted a single-person scoring system for public housing applications and lowered public housing quotas. In addition, according to the Hong Kong Basic Law, new immigrants must wait 7 years to become Hong Kong permanent residents. As such, poor immigrants are often forced to live in bedspace apartments until they receive a Hong Kong ID card.[4]
ThirdTerm wrote:Bedspace apartments were intended to accommodate mainland Chinese migrants temporarily and many of them are still living in these tiny apartments because they cannot become Hong Kong permanent residents after living in Hong Kong for a decade. I think Hong Kongers look down on mainland Chinese migrants, who are not really welcomed in Hong Kong, just like the Poles in Britain, who are also subject to harsh immigration measures.
Rancid wrote:If it comes with a dominatrix, sure, I'll live in a cage.
Rancid wrote:Miami has this same problem. Lots of rich foreigners (many rich Latin Americans, and Rich Russians for some reason) have dumped their money into real estate and fucked everything up for the working poor in Miami. The Panama papers revealed the massive amounts of people using Miami real estate as a way to park illegal money.
ThirdTerm wrote:I think Hong Kongers look down on mainland Chinese migrants, who are not really welcomed in Hong Kong, just like the Poles in Britain, who are also subject to harsh immigration measures.
Beren wrote:However, Hong Kong is part of China as it should be and Hong Kongers are Chinese themselves too, so I don't really see how Poles in Britain are relevant here.
Beren wrote:@colliric
It's still the same people, the same country and the same culture, even if there are different dialects.
It's Peking in Hungarian too.
Rugoz wrote:Hong Kong was fucked the moment it was handed over to China, so whatever.
Victoribus Spolia wrote:Agreed.
Such a dumb move by bleeding heart Englishmen ready to shed their guilt over bringing civilization to most the known world.
ThirdTerm wrote:Hong Kong was the most prosperous part of East Asia and the Chinese economy overtook Japan after gobbling up the former British colonial outpost. It's in China's interest to maintain Hong Kong's status quo as a capitalist part in China. The Chinese economy will collapse, if anything goes wrong with Hong Kong, which may be why Hong Kongers are free to discriminate against Chinese laborers from mainland China with their own immigration laws.
colliric wrote:I disagree with that sentiment.
You would have been supported trying to retain Hong Kong. An invasion would have looked bad for the PRC too, economically destructive and extreamly undemocratic.
But in saying that it would have been mainly diplomatic support and may not have been the required military support.
Hong Kong was not too different to the situation with the ROC(Taiwan), you would have had a large amount of technical support, and the support of the locals, but maybe not physical boots on ground military support.
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