Liao Xiaoming, his wife and his 13-year-old son all live in two square metres in a public restroom.
They live with the constant sound of toilets flushing. A Chinese family in the city of Guangzhou, in south-east China, chooses to live in public restrooms so that their son can attend a local school.
For a family of modest means, housing in Guangzhou is unaffordable. Liao Xiaoming, his wife Wang Xuanna, and their 13-year-old son live in a 2 metre-square space in a public restroom on Beijing Road, one of the city’s busiest streets. They moved to the city from the countryside in 2004, hoping to give their son a better future.