Nearly a year ago, Jacklin Fung left a shabby, windowless sub-divided apartment with her daughter and moved into a much larger flat with spacious views of Hong Kong's rolling hills.
"It was very difficult to live that way," she says about her previous accommodation.
"There was so little space. It definitely affected my daughter. We would have to go out nearly all the time and use public spaces, including to find somewhere to do our homework."
Now, Ms Fung and the two other mothers together pay about HK$10,000 (US$1289 ; £912) in rent, less than half the market price of what their three-bedroom flat in an upper-middle class district would normally command.