By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-03-30 01:11:16 | Updated at 2025-04-03 06:28:04
4 days ago
A young woman in China who struggles with high rents is paying 50 yuan (US$7) a month to live in a toilet.
The woman, surnamed Yang, 18, comes from a rural family in Hubei province in southern China, according to the Xiaoxiang Morning Post.
She works in sales at a furniture store in Zhuzhou in Hunan province, southern China and earns a monthly salary of 2,700 yuan (US$370), far below the city’s average of 7,500 yuan (US$1,000).
With local rents ranging from 800 to 1,800 yuan (US$110 to US$250), Yang could not afford housing, so she struck a deal with her boss to live in an office toilet for just 50 yuan a month.
The six-square-metre space has two squat toilets and a sink.
Yang set up a folding bed, a small cooking pot, a curtain and a clothes rack in the toilet.
