End of 'high life' for Hong Kong's rooftop dwellers

Perched on top of older buildings, the ramshackle dwellings may offer penthouse views in a city where space is at a premium, but the flimsy structures are frequently battered by typhoons and magnify oppressive summer heat. - AFP photos

Hong Kong’s rooftop dwellers face losing their makeshift homes as the government seeks to dismantle them.

Their precarious rooftop houses have offered refuge from an unaffordable Hong Kong property market, but some of the territory’s poorest residents face losing their makeshift homes as the government seeks to dismantle them.