‘I had planned to stay for life’: last villagers prepare to leave Cha Kwo Ling

Nestled within thick, verdant foliage in Cha Kwo Ling is one of Hong Kong’s last squatter settlements, where a handful of remaining residents are staying until a government deadline to move out for redevelopment of the area for public housing.Lam" class="entity-link entity-person" data-entity-id="183795" data-entity-type="person">Mrs Lam, one of the last villagers living among the juxtaposition of makeshift metal dwellings and stone houses complete with wooden window frames, said she had until August 25 to clear her belongings.“I’m going to miss my medicinal herbs so much,” said Lam, in her sixties, who declined to give her full name. She pointed to the plants at her door that she inherited after moving to the village more than a dozen years ago, saying she would not have space for them when rehoused.