Brian Wong: As Hong Kong marks 25 years of British handover, its 'cage homes' remain a stark reminder of its inequities
Brian Wong is a DPhil in Political Theory candidate at Balliol College, Oxford, and a Rhodes Scholar from Hong Kong. They are the founder of the Oxford Political Review.long, meandering corridor guarded by stale pipes and wires lining the walls separate the 10 cubicles stacked on either side.
An occupant of a subdivided residential unit located inside a building in Hong Kong, on June 13, 2017.Yet, many of these tenants are by no means invisible at day. They are, in fact, ubiquitous, cleaning the city’s streets and sewers, loading and unloading its merchandise, waiting on customers at the thousands of restaurants dotting the metro, and manning shop counters and offices.
In 1972, the British colonial administration sought to expand Hong Kong beyond the already highly urbanized regions of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. The New Territories—the vast swathe of rural, low-density land lying to the north of the city—was a natural site for development. In seeking to court Indigenous villagers, the administration implemented the Small House Policy, which would guarantee government funding and land provision for every indigenous male villager to build one house.
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