"How is using the phrase "cage home" emotive when the phrase accurately describes the housing these people are forced to resort to?"
They're not cages. All of the people living in so-called 'cage homes' are free to come and go as they wish. In other countries we would call these people 'homeless'. They are, largely, not 'forced' into these homes. If you bothered to look at the stories they are quite varied: some choose to live there because they like the location, some have burned there bridges with government housing, drug and alcohol problems, divorcees, social misfits.....it's not as simple as you would think....please research and think harder.
"Your posts on this forum which defend almost every third world or feudal practice in this city really demonstrate that you are afflicted with a virulent strand of Stockholm Syndrome. Criticizing Hong Kong for its shortcomings is a civic duty - we should all try and make this is a better city. Explaining away gross norms and behavior by trotting out the culture argument does a great disservice to the community we live in."
Oh please! A great disservice to our community would be slithering and snivelling our way into a welfare state....won't be long now until the bubble bursts in quite a few western countries I think...