rex 04 cramped hong kong nt 13027 blog Shocking Photos of Cramped Hong Kong Apartments
{"Image ImageWidth": "2001", "Image ImageLength": "1590", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image ImageDescription": "Editorial Use Only. No stock, books, advertising or merchandising without photographer's permission\nMandatory Credit: Photo by Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex / Rex USA (1254664d)\n(Cropped picture) An elderly person living in urban slums in Hong Kong.\nShocking aerial photos of cramped Hong Kong apartments, Hong Kong - 22 Feb 2013\nFULL COPY: http://www.rexfeatures.com/nanolink/k4y9 \n\nFor people living in the west, it's hard to imagine anyone living in an apartment this small.\n\nBut for some of the poorest people in Hong Kong this is their home, all 40 square-foot of it. \n\nThe Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) has released a set of birds-eye images of low-income families, singletons, elderly and unemployed people living in urban slums to highlight the housing problem in Hong Kong.\n\nDirector of SoCO, Ho Hei-Wah says: \"By taking these photos of inadequate housing we have uncovered the problems and want to arouse public and government concern over the issue.\n\n\"These people have to afford an expensive rent rate; it equals to approximately GBP 6-7.50 per square foot per month and sometimes have to wait years for public rental housing because they have so few in Hong Kong.\"", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Macintosh", "Image DateTime": "2013:02:27 12:47:49", "Image Artist": "Benny Lam/SoCO/Rex / Rex USA", "Image Copyright": "Copyright (c) 2013 Rex USA. No use without permission.", "Image ExifOffset": "1532", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1682", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "8683", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "640", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "509"}