Photos of Chinese micro-apartments reveal the terrifying scope of a housing crisis
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All those people will need somewhere to live.
Over the past several years, Chinese developers have coped with a shortage of affordable housing by downsizing many units to a couple hundred square feet at maximum.
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In these micro-apartments, a cramped lifestyle becomes the norm. People have just enough room to sleep and eat. And without a viable income to buy more space, some people live out their remaining years there.
Here's what life is like on the inside.
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