Crypto News: Could quarantine camps become housing?

As Hong Kong dismantles the last of its Covid restrictions and begins reopening, the city still lacks a game plan for what to do with the shuttered quarantine camps that once held hundreds of thousands of people isolating in the throes of the pandemic. Some advocates say the camps could be repurposed into public housing to help alleviate the city's housing crisis.

It could improve living conditions for the city's poor, with some units bigger than Hong Kong's "cage homes" and subdivided units that are as small as 60 square feet. The largest camps could last up to 50 years and be used for homeless shelters, according to the city. But transforming spaces designed to keep people apart into ones that bring them together won't be easy, writes Kristine Servando. Today on CityLab: Hong Kong Is Shutting the Last of Its Covid Quarantine Camps. Now What?

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