Homelessness in Hong Kong was once rare, but many hundreds now live in doorways, under overpasses, and in tunnels.
Sze Lai-Shan works for Hong Kong's Society for Community Organisation, which visits 1,000 cage-dwellers a year and campaigns for their living standards to be improved.
She told MailOnline: 'If you run a cage home you need to apply for a licence but people are now setting them up without licences and running them illegally, so the government doesn't have an accurate figure on how many there are.
'We're finding more and more illegal cage homes and the cost of living in them is rising. The average rent is about 1,500 Hong Kong dollars (£117) a year. If the landlord is kind they might charge $1,000, and that's for 15 or 18 square feet.
'We're trying to put pressure on the government to increase the supply of public housing and push the government to monitor the cage homes and the rent people are paying a lot more.'
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