But the legislation does not include overcrowded flats where thousands live due to Hong Kong’s housing crisis.

Roughly 200,000 people around Hong Kong have been driven to live in these coffin homes - largely because there are few affordable alternatives for recent college graduates and the elderly.

Hong Kong’s fifth wave of coronavirus has cost about 6,000 lives this year – and the city is now running out of coffins. Authorities have scrambled to order more, with the government saying ...

Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last British governor, described the legislation as "another large nail in the coffin of human rights and the rule of law in Hong Kong and a further disgraceful breach of ...

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee announced that subdivided flats under eight square metres will be phased out. By contrast, “coffin homes", which were regulated and legalised thirty years ago ...