However, increased prosperity hasn't trickled down to everyone. According to the Gini co-efficiency, which measures inequality, Hong Kong is the least equal city in the developed world.
Local advocacy group Society for Community Organization says that hundreds of thousands of people are still living in caged homes and wood-partitioned cubicles. What's worse, the number of people living this way appears to be increasing, as economic migrants arrive in the city from mainland
To highlight the struggle, SoCO took shots of the homes to show just how tight these living quarters are.
The apartments were so small that they had to be photographed from the ceiling to capture them.