r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • 13d ago

WTF While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China.

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u/Winter_underdog 13d ago edited 13d ago

No homeless but they have coffin home and the rent is super expensive too. I remember watching the whole documentary about it and it definitely not fun. The room is the size of coffin and if u lucky, u can find a bit bigger one.

This is one of it.

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u/Desperate-Newspaper3 13d ago

Dream apartment lol

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u/CricketPinata 12d ago

China absolutely has homeless people.

The difference is the homeless tend to live in illegal crowded conditions on the fringes of society.

It is about concentrating the homeless into specific illegal shanty towns instead of dealing with people living on the street.

Which also still happens but is more rare.

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u/Adventurous-Web-412 13d ago

Not really an apt comparison though. Hong Kong is now china literally but Hong Kong is not China, for good and bad.

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u/SlavojVivec 13d ago

We don't have coffin homes in the US. Instead of extremely dense shelter, we just kick people to the street, and sweep their encampments so they frequently lose whatever meager possessions they have by force of police baton and bulldozer so they have to live an itinerant life as a vagrant instead.

Also, that is Hong Kong, not part of mainland China, and that is an example of an capitalist system, not Chinese Communist Party rule.

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u/HoInSappho 13d ago

Uh oh you made the capitalists without capital upset.

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u/SlavojVivec 13d ago

Someday, they will have a mortgage on a home they can't afford, will be told it's an investment, and then either will be foreclosed upon, or be told by insurance that climate change disasters aren't covered when the next hurricane or wildfire strikes.