Frankly, when i read this headline I didn’t think it could be true, but here’s the article, judge for yourselves. You remember this issue cropped up in Shanghai maybe a couple of months or a year ago, when they started cracking down on people living together and demanding more red tape if people wanted to live together. Well, if this article is true (and why shouldn’t it be) then this problem, at least in Beijing, has not yet gone away. What is amazing is that they used partitions to divvy up 100 square meters into 20 rooms, each of which has at least 2 people or, if the headline is right, an average of four people per room. There is only one bathroom and one “kitchen.”
It’s amazing that something like this might exist: I suppose when you’re poor there’s not much choice but still to lower yourself to sleeping like this, and to let that damn landlord make money off you that way…well, it leaves me speechless.
