Rooftop housing

Rooftop housing

Rooftop housing(天台屋) is a special kind of housing that appears in Hong Kong. It is not necessarily illegal, but most of them are, in fact, illegal. Rooftop housing signify the old time when the housing demand in Hong Kong was very serious that people build illegal housing at the top of multi-storey buildings and rent them as ordinary apartments. Rooftop housing are usually cheaper. This is on one hand because they are illegal, and also because the hotter in summer and cooler in winter conditiions.


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