cage homes

基本解释

The 100 or so flats subdivided into cage homes are estimated to accommodate 5, 000 people.
据估计，目前约有100座细分为笼屋的公寓，住着5000人。
In west Kowloon, site of most of Hong Kong's cage homes, the income disparity is particularly stark.
在香港大多数笼屋所在的西九龙区，收入差距尤为明显。

While cage homes, which sprang up in the 1950s to cater mostly to single men coming in from mainland China, are becoming rarer, other types of substandard housing such as cubicle apartments are growing as more families are pushed into poverty.
NPR: Hong Kong Poor Living In Cages And Cubicles
"Cramped living space in cage homes, cubicle apartments and sub-divided flats has become the reluctant choice for tens of thousands of Hong Kong people, " he said, as he unveiled plans to boost supply of public housing in the medium term from its current level of 15, 000 apartments a year.
NPR: Hong Kong Poor Living In Cages And Cubicles