The city's government has proposed new rules that would set minimum standards for such housing units, but residents and advocates for the poor worry that it could drive up rents and make it even harder to hang on in the city.
About one-fourth are less than eight square meters (86 square feet), the minimum size mandated under the proposed rules.
Tens of thousands of people in densely populated, land-poor Hong Kong live in tiny dwellings made by dividing up apartments, most smaller than a parking space.
The government has promised to assist affected residents in resettlement and adopt a gradual approach in its policy implementation to avoid causing panic.
10 square meters (110 square feet).
