You can hardly walk down a street in Hong Kong without coming across a building that is in some stage of demolition. In the midst of a property bubble, the buildings taking most of the brunt are low-rise tong laus, the walk-up apartment buildings that are to Hong Kong what brownstones are to New York and courtyard houses to Beijing.
Most tong laus were built in a boom period between 1956 and 1962, when the economy recovered from an early-1950s slump and thousands of migrants began pouring into Hong Kong from the mainland.
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