In Hong Kong, there are lots of similar old buildings housing tens of thousands of families. More often than not, these "tenement buildings" as known here by the locals are built around the WWII. They have a history of their own and provided shelters for families running away from the communist conquest of China at first, then those starting to surf the booming economy and now new immigrants from Mainland China. As probably all old buildings of little extra values around the world, these buildings have become cheap places to rent or buy. But their new found potential of being bought out for urban renewal by the government have made them covetable to speculators that have the money to keep these buildings in stock for the government's handsome ransom at the right time. These buildings interest me for their pigeon-hole yet varied looks.
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