scholarly journals Why Does the Government Fail to Improve the Living Conditions of Migrant Workers in Shanghai? Reflections on the Policies and the Implementations of Public Rental Housing under Neoliberalism

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Shen
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
The Government

The Poverty Line and the Value of Public Rental Housing Subsidies to the Poor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chim Richard Wong
Keyword(s):  
Rental Housing ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Housing Subsidies ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
The Government ◽  
Ownership Rights ◽  
Sixtieth Anniversary

There is one very simple and costless way to alleviate poverty in one fell swoop. All one has to do is to transfer full private ownership rights of the public housing units to the occupying tenant free of charge. . … This would, according to the government study, lift 600,000 households in public rental housing above the poverty line. This would have been the best Christmas gift the Poverty Commission could bestow on the poor people in Hong Kong on the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the Shek Kip Mei Fire.

Partial Intimations of the Coming Whole

Modern China ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 646-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyuan Cui
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Private Business ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
The People ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Public Rental Housing

This article interprets the ongoing Chongqing experiment in light of the theories of Henry George, James Meade, and Antonio Gramsci. It argues that the Chongqing experiment has shown the possibility of integrating rural and urban development and of the co-development of public ownership and private business. Through such practices as sending cadres to work, to live, and to eat together with the peasants, re-registering rural migrant workers as urban residents, “singing red songs,” and providing public rental housing for low- and middle-income people, Chongqing has acted to revitalize the Chinese Communist Party’s relationship with the people.

scholarly journals An Innovated Integrated Prefabricated Quarter System for the Migrant On-site Construction Workers of China

2015 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Tao Wang ◽  
Yulong Li ◽  
Guijun Li ◽  
Sijia Wu
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
The Government

Migrant construction workers from rural communities are the main workforce in the Chinese construction industry and urban development. While far from hometown, most migrant construction workers live in temporary quarters, with poor conditions, on or near the construction site. Although there are standards set by the government to guarantee the basic health and safety conditions of such housing, migrant construction workers in China suffer some of the worst living conditions, even compared to migrant workers in other industries. Health and safety accidents occur often enough in workers’ quarters to provoke young laborers from rural areas to seek employment in the service industry, where better living conditions are available. As a result, serious labor shortages in the construction industry have emerged in China over recent years. There is a significant requirement for the industry to improve the condition of living quarters, by applying both technical and management methods. So far, very few articles have addressed the methods for improving the accommodations for rural migrant construction workers in urban China. This paper aims to develop an innovated integrated prefabricated (prefab) quarter system for the on-site construction workers in China. The paper first discusses the current status of the traditional construction workers’ quarters to disclose the most urgent problems in need of resolution. Barriers that block the innovation of improved workers’ quarters are listed. Then an innovated integrated prefab quarter system is introduced. The feasibility and applicability of the proposed system are discussed. The strengths of the system with regard to the management of health, safety, and environment are analyzed and compared to the traditional system. An actual pilot project is studied as the validation of the prefab quarter system.

Are migrant workers satisfied with public rental housing? A study in Chongqing, China

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 96-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolong Gan ◽  
Jian Zuo ◽  
Kunhui Ye ◽  
Dezhi Li ◽  
Ruidong Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Public Rental Housing

Study on the Improvement of Public Rental Housing Development and Operation Model Based on Full Life Cycle Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 1079-1080 ◽  
pp. 1220-1223
Author(s):  
Bin Guo ◽  
Hai Bo Mu ◽  
Ao Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Operation Mode ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Full Life Cycle ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
The Government

Public rental housing plays an important role in the construction ofsecurity housing system in our country, but in the current development andoperation mode, public rental housing project of its own financial viabilityCo., need the government to give large amounts of funds and policy support, thedependence is strong, is not conducive to sustainable development projects,limiting its security role play. In this paper, by using the life cycle costtheory, the construction of public rental housing life cycle cost model,analyze the existing problems in the development and operation mode, and thenputs forward the improvement direction of development and operation pattern,causes it to have certain financial viability, provide policy recommendationsfor the future development of China's public rental housing.

scholarly journals Investment Valuation Model of Public Rental Housing PPP Project for Private Sector: A Real Option Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangang Shi ◽  
Kaifeng Duan ◽  
Shiping Wen ◽  
Rui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Real Option ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Tree Model ◽  
Binomial Tree ◽  
Housing Investment ◽  
Valuation Model ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
Investment Valuation ◽  
The Government

Public rental housing (PRH) in China is mainly invested by the government at present. The huge capital demand brings it great pressure and a series of problems appear meanwhile. Public–private partnership (PPP) has been regarded as a way to solve the funding dilemma of PRH. However, the PRH project is not attractive for the private sector since the expected profit seems unsatisfactory based on traditional valuation methods. To improve this situation, this paper proposed an investment valuation model from a real option perspective. For the private sector, three types of options, including deferral option, abandonment option, and expansion option, were identified during the concession period of a PRH PPP project. On this basis, a two-stage binomial tree model was constructed for estimating the investment value. Then, the proposed model was tested in a hypothetical example of a typical PRH PPP project in Chongqing, China. The result shows that great potential value can be excavated through flexible strategies and adaption to uncertainties. This paper provides a deep analysis on the gaps of the real option application in public housing investment assessment, which is meaningful for improving the supply efficiency and financial sustainability of PRH.

scholarly journals Effective Public Rental Housing governance: tenants’ perspective from the pilot city Chongqing, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Yan ◽  
Marietta Haffner ◽  
Marja Elsinga
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Willingness To Communicate ◽  
Housing Quality ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Public Rental Housing ◽  
The Government

AbstractIn the past decade, Public Rental Housing (PRH) has become the program of providing affordable rental housing to low- and middle-income households in China. Even though descriptions of the governance results are numerous, the previous studies are not underpinned by a theoretical foundation from a governance perspective, nor have they empirically examined whether PRH governance works on the ground. This explorative and empirical paper aims to fill this gap of an outcome-oriented evaluation of the impacts of governance as perceived by the final user. Central government formulated the objective for PRH governance as maintaining stability in the society. Whether the tenants perceive the goal of social stability as achieved was measured along three governance outcome dimensions: satisfaction with housing quality, satisfaction with housing quantity, and willingness to communicate with the government about PRH governance. Data were collected from questionnaires to PRH-tenants in Chongqing, the most important pilot city of PRH provision in China. The findings show that the perceived governance outcomes were quite mixed as tenants were moderately satisfied with PRH housing quantity, but less satisfied with housing quality, and thought they could relatively easily communicate with local government. In view of these mixed outcomes, to strengthen the effectiveness of PRH governance in the eyes of the tenants, this study suggests local governments: (1) to rethink and redevelop the performance evaluation; (2) to rethink the relations with non-governmental actors and organise a monitoring system that will assist in optimizing housing quality; and (3) to facilitate tenants’ communication with local government.

Agro-Innovation – Path to Agricultural Entrepreneurship: Feasibility Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Elias Kamaruzzaman ◽  
Norzaidi Mohd Daud ◽  
Samsudin Wahab ◽  
Rozhan Abu Dardak
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Production Cost ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Financial Cost ◽  
Technology Changes ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agricultural Entrepreneurship

Technology changes will always be for the better, not only to the end users but also to the intellectual property owners of the technology and the implementers of the technology. The objective of this paper is to study the feasibility and viability for entrepreneurs to become service providers for the dispensation of fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and supporting services such as aerial crop reconnaissance using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones. The methodology used for this study is SWOT Analysis. Both primary and secondary data is used for this analysis. This study finds that paddy farming employing drones is feasible. The beneficiaries of this study shall be the government, by way of lowering financial cost to subsidise the paddy planting, the farmers who no longer need the services of migrant workers, thus saving production cost, and finally the drone service providers and their downstream business associates who can engaged themselves in very lucrative businesses.

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