Hong Kong faces demographic crisis as young workers struggle with affordability

In one of the world's most expensive cities, a twenty-eight-year-old construction worker and his wife have quietly made a decision that millions of others are making alongside them: they cannot afford to bring a child into the world they inhabit. Hong Kong now confronts what demographers call a triple squeeze — an aging population, a collapsing birth rate, and eroding employment stability — forces that do not merely coexist but amplify one another. As the government prepares a policy address, the city faces a question older than economics: what kind of future can a society build when the condi