What Is Coffin-Lowry Syndrome?

A "coffin room" is a house with only one bed, and people open the door and go to bed directly. Residents are mainly low-income groups.

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A "coffin room" is a house with only one bed, and people open the door and go to bed directly. Residents are mainly low-income groups.
Chinese name
Following the cage houses and board rooms, "coffin houses" appeared in Hong Kong, and the residents were mainly low-income people. In the coffin room, a board room was changed into six small rooms in the shape of a "well". Each room only had the space of a coffin the size but less than five feet in height. Six residents lived in a cave-like life here. Residents cannot stand or even sit in the room, they must lie down, and they must crawl around like animals. [1]
"Coffin House" hidden in Hong Kong
The tenants of the "coffin room" are mainly these types of people: one is a person who has a family in the Mainland and eats and sleeps in Hong Kong; the second is a bad gambler who loses money; the third is a CSSA recipient. There are even inland workers.
The owners of the "coffin house", many of them have more than a hundred similar houses in the district at the same time, with a monthly income of up to 200,000
The Director of the Hong Kong Development Board, Mrs Lam Cheng-yue, said that she had sent officers to investigate and inspect the premises, but there was not enough evidence to prove that the premises operated unlicensed hotels or unlicensed bedspace apartments. Lin Zhengyue emphasized that according to the Bedspace Apartments Ordinance, any residential unit with 12 or more single beds for rent must be licensed before it can be operated. It is an offence to run an illegal bedspace apartment on credit.

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