“Kuwait: Low-income expats shift to partitions to beat high rents”

…High rents in Kuwait are taking a toll on low-income foreign workers in Kuwait where house rent makes up around 30 per cent of the overall income on average, according to a Kuwaiti newspaper.

Some 62 per cent of migrant workers in the country earn less than KD125 per month while 33 per cent receive salaries ranging from KD325 to 400, Al Anba reported, citing official figures.

…limited-income earners among expatriates, mainly singles, shift sights to cheap housing, opting for small spaces where sometimes up to five persons share a room and the rent.

Other thousands are living inside partitioned spaces at apartments in different parts of Kuwait…

Expatriates in Kuwait mostly reside in the area of Salmya which houses 2,911 apartment buildings followed by the coastal city of Hawally with 1,811 buildings and Jleeb Al Shuyoukh with 1,181, according to the Kuwaiti Real Estate Union…