Subversive Hong Kong Tours Reveal Dark Side of a Glittering City<br />Ms. Lau was inspired to become a tour guide in Hong Kong while backpacking around Europe;<br />she took a tour of Sofia, Bulgaria, that highlighted the city’s darker side.<br />Ms. Lau, who slept in the streets of central Hong Kong for a few weeks in 2014 as part of the Occupy movement, said the removal of four pro-democracy lawmakers from office in July had so angered<br />and demoralized people she knew that some were thinking of leaving the city.<br />During the next day’s tour, she added a dose of the latest political developments, hoping, she said,<br />that when Hong Kong reaches another breaking point, the tourists on her tour will see it on the news and feel a connection to the place.<br />It isn’t telling a lot of people’s stories." As the tour wound deeper into Kowloon, the broad peninsula<br />that points toward the sparkling towers of Hong Kong Island, Ms. Lau discussed the city’s housing crisis.<br />By CHARLOTTE GRAHAMJULY 31, 2017<br />HONG KONG — Among the crowds on Kweilin Street in the run-down Hong Kong neighborhood of Sham Shui Po, Alla<br />Lau darted between street signs, peering at the backs of them until she found what she was looking for.<br />Per square foot, the monthly rent was more than that of the costlier apartments in Hong Kong, one of the world’s most expensive housing markets,<br />and many people living in the cages make far less than the city’s monthly median income, roughly 12,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, or about $1,540.<br />Chinese said that There,
