A villager walks through the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Villager Lo Yuet-ping attends to his laundry at the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Teoh Bee Hua, a Malaysian who moved to Cha Kwo Ling after marrying a villager in 1973, poses for a photo at her grocery shop in the Cha Kwo Ling Village in Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. She has kept operating her grocery shop there even though she no longer lives in the village after a fire. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Villager Lo Yuet-ping holds up an old black and white photo where he can be seen in the second from top right at the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Villager Chan Shun-hong poses for a photo as she tends to her vegetables at the Cha Kwo Ling Village in Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Villager Lo Yuet-ping carries the head prop that's used in the traditional "Qilin" Dance at the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Villager Chan Shun-hong tends to her vegetables at the Cha Kwo Ling Village in Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
FILE- Perched high on a hill, a shiny new apartment house looks down upon a settlement of squatters' huts in the British crown colony of Hong Kong on May 16, 1956. (AP Photo/File)
Villager Lo Yuet-ping cleans the head prop that's used in the traditional "Qilin" Dance at the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
A general view of the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Villager Chan Shun-hong dries her harvested vegetables at the Cha Kwo Ling Village in Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Villager Lo Yuet-ping walks through the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
FILE- Government built refugee settlement projects in Hong Kong, Sept. 1, 1960. (AP Photo/W, File)
A villager walks through the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
The flags of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) are flown at the entrance to the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
A elderly villager attends to his laundry at the Cha Kwo Ling Village in Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
A villager walks through the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Villager Lo Yuet-ping walks past squatter registration info written on the walls of a house in Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Laundry are hung to dry at the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
FILE- View of Hong Kong 's hillsides with "squatter" huts of refugees in this photo from 1959. (AP Photo/Fred Waters, File)
Letterboxes stuffed with mails are seen at the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
A general view of the Cha Kwo Ling Village in Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
Villager Chan Shun-hong dries her harvested vegetables at the Cha Kwo Ling Village in Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)
A villager tends her store at the Cha Kwo Ling village in east Kowloon, Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)