I wonder how long would it take for low income Vietnamese citizens in urban areas to have to live in micro apartments like people in Hong Kong. But as it turns out, we’ve already arrived that point.
(Down with the landlỏd)
I have seen similar ones in Singapur as well. Not too different from some Japanese capsule hotels/hostels though.
I was going to make a dark one-upmanship joke about how Americans were paying rent to live in Vans but the fire hazard obvious from the pictures is much more concerning, considering the epidemic of fires in HCMC.
Yeah, there have been a lot of cases in which the condominiums, especially ones designed for poor folks, catched on fire. They are not sleep boxes by any means, but the fire hazard inherent in cheap housing is not to be underestimated. Lots of people have died because of the lack of infrastructure that could help tenants escape the fire, so I simply could not imgine how such infrasstructure could exist in these places, nor how landlords who build these would ever have the intention of installing one in the first place. It’s bewildering to see the sheer length that landlords would be willing to take to avoid having to follow through fire safety regulations just to save a little money for themselves.
And by the way, while these people have to crawl into rat’s hut every night, there are still a lot of abandoned apartments that no one lives in,. Capitalism is so fine.
And yeah, paying rent to live in Vans might be the one of the most dystopian shits I’ve ever heard of,
