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Don’t leave burden of social housing to Hong Kong’s NGOs, government urged amid notorious wait for public flats

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Wu Xiaoping did not have a good night’s sleep during the three years she spent with her teenage daughter in an 80 sq ft subdivided flat in Aberdeen, Hong Kong.“There were always strange men lurking around, giving us looks. And whenever they smoked, it was suffocating,” recalls Wu, 51.Everything they needed to get by was crammed into their tiny space: a bed, bathroom facilities and a stove. There were days when the air conditioner malfunctioned, and the two would sit up in bed, unable to sleep…

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