‘Hong Kong stacks people’: understand extreme density and global record for skyscrapers, like the one that caused tragedy

Hong Kong is piling people up, defines reporter Rodrigo Carvalho. The crisis, according to experts, arises from the combination of real estate speculation and precarious work. Betty Xiao Wang, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, warns: “There are homeless people in London, New York. Here, basically, they are housed in coffin apartments. If the government banned it completely, where would they go? To the streets?”