more expensive if you have your own toilet in hong kong the gap between the rich employs a bank seelye shan as a community organizer with sopo i think that the minute you. step onto the $50.00 and the fifty's they don't have political power she tells me that on average families wait 5 and a half years to receive subsidized housing and if you're in an urban area it's closer to 8 years and if you're young single and without a family it could be 20. i spoke with the leader of hong kong's largest labor organisation about this. so housing in hong kong is a big problem there isn't enough land and there are more than 10000 people who are qualified yet still waiting for public housing but the waiting period is very long especially for young people in the meantime your bed may be your home i also spoke with tech chief u.n. a founding member and the former vice chair of the democratic party hong kong's largest political party he left that party because of its unwillingness to have dialogue with beijing he says that while the extradition amendment which has now been withdrawn may have been the trigger