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Is Hong Kong’s drive to eliminate substandard housing doing more harm than good?

· By Edith Lin
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Housewife May and her three children were overjoyed last September when they moved into a 200 sq ft subdivided flat in Kwai Tsing, a Hong Kong district with one of the city’s lowest average monthly household incomes. For years, the 50-year-old single parent had lived in a squatter hut with her son and two daughters,…

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