That was sad, depressing, clutter, no window, very dreary!
I have visited Hong Kong twice, and both times it was filled with people very glad not to be under communist Chinese rule. Of course it is sad to think of those people living within the 100 ft apartments, but on the other hand, they were glad not to be living within the bamboo curtain.
They were putting up apartment building after apartment building, twenty story buildings with a thousand units per building, as close as possible across the land, to accommodate those fleeing from Mao. As close as they were, there was a minimum of violence and discontent.
Compare and contrast that with Newark N.J., where I saw comparable public housing buildings burned and gutted, abandoned and condemned, only ten years after construction. There, it did not work at all to give people a free hand up.