60-year-old cleaner Kei pays HK$2,200 for a bedbug-infested partition measuring some 20 square feet in a Mong Kok flat shared with 14 other tenants. He makes about HK$500 a day as a janitor, about the same amount he spends monthly on his cross-harbour commute. Kei’s bedspace is known colloquially as a “coffin home” – a space that fits little more than a single bed and some personal items. He faces up to a decade-long wait for a subsidised rental flat, given that he is a single applicant without children or elderly dependents. He was worried that he will have to move out and look for another mo…