More than 30 families were living in their unfinished apartments in a residential development in Kunming, Southwest China’s Yunnan province on July 15.

A family sits in an unfinished apartment on July 14 in the development. Unable to get their money back, some homeowners who fell on hard times during the Covid-19 pandemic can no longer afford rent in the city, a state-run newspaper reported.

Two children play in front of a window opening on July 14.

A woman sits in a tent that she set up to keep mosquitoes at bay.

A child studies in an unfinished bedroom.

Two sofas sit against the back wall of an unpainted room.