OBSERVATION: Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents live in appalling conditions; affordable housing is not being constructed quickly enough to keep up with demand.
SOLUTION: Create floating transitional residential communities in select protected waterways along Hong Kong’s coast to address Hong Kong’s housing crisis.
EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION:
Could this system of rapidly-deployable accommodation be set up in times of emergency, where quarantine camps or emergency housing is required following unprecedented outbreaks of disease or other natural disaster?
Relative to functioning as a scalable quarantine facility for unexpected events like the COVID-19 virus of 2020, these floating communities could be relatively self-sufficient, become relatively isolated from populated areas and contain emergency field hospitals / clinics within each set of barges — in addition to providing recovering patients with plenty of fresh air.