"Kilamba was conceived and constructed by state-owned China International
Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) as the largest of several new
"satellite cities" being built by the Chinese in Angola. The $3.5
billion “city” was designed for 500,000 occupants, to be housed in the
2,800 apartment units that fill out the housing blocks. But these remain
empty, as the BBC reports,
in large part to the purportedly extravagant costs of the apartments –
as high as $80,000 – that lay beyond the reach of most Angolan families
which subsist on criminally low wages and have little to no access to
large loans and mortgages."
--http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/07/ghost-city-angola-built-chinese/2608/
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