The experience of Peter Kwong can testify to the rise in property costs. In 1974, he lived on the roof of a run-down warehouse at the western edge of Chinatown.
地產飆漲的實例，鄺治中的經歷可以說明：一九七四年，他曾住在唐人街西邊的東百老匯大街一座破落倉庫的頂樓上。