{
  "id": 12055946,
  "title": "Is Hong Kong’s drive to eliminate substandard housing doing more harm than good?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/is-hong-kongs-drive-to-eliminate-substandard-housing-doing-more-harm-12055946",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-05T02:00:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3369726/hong-kongs-drive-eliminate-substandard-housing-doing-more-harm-good"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Housewife May and her three children were overjoyed last September when they moved into a 200 sq ft subdivided flat in Kwai Tsing, a Hong Kong district with one of the city’s lowest average monthly household incomes. For years, the 50-year-old single parent had lived in a squatter hut with her son and two daughters, where they had to climb hundreds of stairs daily. They later moved into a 100 sq…",
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      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
        "title": "Is Hong Kong’s drive to eliminate substandard housing doing more harm than good?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/is-hong-kongs-drive-to-eliminate-substandard-housing-doing-more-harm",
        "published": "2026-10-05T02:00:28.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}