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Exactly how many citizens in Hong Kong are dying because of hunger or shelter? By the way, "Hong Kong is one of the healthiest places in the world. Hongkonger

by hc811 13y ago

Exactly how many citizens in Hong Kong are dying because of hunger or shelter? By the way, "Hong Kong is one of the healthiest places in the world. Hongkongers enjoy a life expectancy of 85.9 for females and 80 for men, which is the third highest in the world, and an infant mortality rate of 3.8 deaths per 1000 births, the fourth lowest in the world." [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Hong_Kong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Hong_Kong

bane 13y ago
> Exactly how many citizens in Hong Kong are dying because of hunger Depending on how you count it, measures of food insecurity in HK show about 1.5 million [1] (in a population of ~7 million). Oxfam in 2011 [2][3], for example, tracks 16% of poor households with children suffer from frequent starvation and 30% from simply not being able to afford enough food. Homelessness is less severe...relatively. Surveys in the city find ~1000 people sleep in the streets -- and local weather makes this a less severe option than say...Toronto. You probably won't die on the streets in HK from exposure. But HK also offers a surprisingly unregulated housing market that allows for people to sublet incredibly small spaces and even stack rental units in a single dwelling like kennels. Estimates put 100,000 people living in these conditions [5] Significantly more live in apartments between 24-40 square feet. [6] But this you could find out for yourself with a minute of googling, that you didn't shows you are simply trying to reinforce some preconceived notion. 1 - http://feedinghk.org/the-big-issues/hunger-101/ http://feedinghk.org/the-big-issues/hunger-101/ 2 - http://www.oxfam.org.hk/en/news_1630.aspx http://www.oxfam.org.hk/en/news_1630.aspx 3 - http://www.oxfam.org.hk/filemgr/1630/FoodSurveyReportAug2011_revised.pdf http://www.oxfam.org.hk/filemgr/1630/FoodSurveyReportAug2011... 4 - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/youeprj/hope/homelessness.html http://www.cityu.edu.hk/youeprj/hope/homelessness.html 5 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084971/Hong-Kongs-cage-homes-Tens-thousands-living-6ft-2ft-rabbit-hutches.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084971/Hong-Kongs-c... 6 - http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/shocking-photos-of-cramped-hong-kong-apartments/ http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/shocking-photo...

by hc811 13y ago

bane 13y ago

> Exactly how many citizens in Hong Kong are dying because of hunger Depending on how you count it, measures of food insecurity in HK show about 1.5 million [1] (in a population of ~7 million). Oxfam in 2011 [2][3], for example, tracks 16% of poor households with children suffer from frequent starvation and 30% from simply not being able to afford enough food. Homelessness is less severe...relatively. Surveys in the city find ~1000 people sleep in the streets -- and local weather makes this a less severe option than say...Toronto. You probably won't die on the streets in HK from exposure. But HK also offers a surprisingly unregulated housing market that allows for people to sublet incredibly small spaces and even stack rental units in a single dwelling like kennels. Estimates put 100,000 people living in these conditions [5] Significantly more live in apartments between 24-40 square feet. [6] But this you could find out for yourself with a minute of googling, that you didn't shows you are simply trying to reinforce some preconceived notion. 1 - http://feedinghk.org/the-big-issues/hunger-101/ http://feedinghk.org/the-big-issues/hunger-101/ 2 - http://www.oxfam.org.hk/en/news_1630.aspx http://www.oxfam.org.hk/en/news_1630.aspx 3 - http://www.oxfam.org.hk/filemgr/1630/FoodSurveyReportAug2011_revised.pdf http://www.oxfam.org.hk/filemgr/1630/FoodSurveyReportAug2011... 4 - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/youeprj/hope/homelessness.html http://www.cityu.edu.hk/youeprj/hope/homelessness.html 5 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084971/Hong-Kongs-cage-homes-Tens-thousands-living-6ft-2ft-rabbit-hutches.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084971/Hong-Kongs-c... 6 - http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/shocking-photos-of-cramped-hong-kong-apartments/ http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/shocking-photo...