Housing Reform in Urban China: Efficiency, Distribution and the Implications for Social Security

Economica ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 62 (246) ◽  
pp. 141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Pudney ◽  
Limin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Housing Reform

A Room of One's Own: Housing Consumption and Residential Crowding in Transitional Urban China

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youqin Huang
Keyword(s):  
Household Income ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Housing Tenure ◽  
City Size ◽  
Housing Consumption ◽  
Housing Reform ◽  
Institutional Variables ◽  
Room Of One's Own ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the level and examine the dynamics of housing consumption and residential crowding in urban China almost a decade after the housing reform was launched. I argue that housing consumption and residential crowding are affected not only by demographic and socio-economic factors, as they are in market economies, but also by institutional factors that are unique to China because of the dualism in housing reform. Using a 1996 national survey, I find that the level of housing consumption is still low and residential crowding is common. A room of one's own continues to be a dream for most Chinese. However, Chinese households now have more control over their housing, and their housing behaviors are beginning to share similarities with the West. For example, life cycle, household income, housing tenure, and city size have similar effects on housing consumption and residential crowding as they do in Western housing markets. It is still clear, however, that the socialist institution—the hukou system—continues to influence housing consumption, although to a lesser extent than in the prereform period. Households with rural or temporary hukou are at a disadvantage in the housing market, in the sense that they occupy less spacious housing and suffer more from residential crowding than do those with urban and permanent hukou. Yet, these last are more constrained by institutional variables such as job and work-unit characteristics, which affect housing consumption differently across cities.

scholarly journals Approaching Neighborhood Democracy from a Longitudinal Perspective: An Eighteen-Year Case Study of a Homeowner Association in Beijing

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Lo
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Occupancy Rate ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Housing Reform ◽  
Built Form ◽  
The Social

Neighborhood democracy was introduced into urban China in the early 1990s as a way to manage the social conflicts associated with the housing reform. Based on a case study of Dragon Villas, Beijing, this paper explores the causes, processes, and consequences of neighborhood democracy at the microlevel from a longitudinal perspective. Three insights are particularly noteworthy. First, the decrease in rental revenue and occupancy rate and the arrival of Chinese owner-occupiers contributed to the emergence of neighborhood democracy in Dragon Villas. Second, the establishment of a homeowner association, far from ending in the conclusion of neighborhood democratization, was only a first step. Furthermore, conflicts between the developer and the homeowners, and among homeowners, played a crucial role in lengthening the process of neighborhood democratization. Third, democratic self-governance resulted in improved governance, a more diverse built form that articulates individuation through consumption, and changes that reflect the importance of privacy and exclusivity.

scholarly journals Housing Inequality in Urban China: Theoretical Debates, Empirical Evidences, and Future Directions

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiping Fang ◽  
Zhilin Liu ◽  
Yulin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Economy ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Housing Reform ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Housing Inequality ◽  
Recent Policy

Within three decades, the urban housing reform in China has changed access to housing from a system of socialist administrative allocation to that of more market-dominated housing development and consumption. Researchers have studied the socioeconomic and spatial consequences of these profound transformations. This review focuses on China’s housing inequality literature in relation to the changing origins, spatial patterns, and recent policy responses. The article reveals the unique features of China’s transitional economy along with massive urbanization, in which housing inequalities are rooted in socialism and strengthened by institutional changes of a state-led market economy.

Intergenerational Transmission of Family Property and Family Management in Urban China

2010 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 960-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danning Wang
Keyword(s):  
Rural China ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Family Management ◽  
Housing Reform ◽  
Adult Sons ◽  
Family Culture ◽  
Senior Women ◽  
Family Division ◽  
Modernization Process

AbstractThis article applies Myron Cohen's studies of family division and family management in rural China to an examination of how working class families in urban China cope with the hardships created by industrial transition and housing reform. Senior parents work with their adult children; parental authority retains a critical role. By flexibly shifting powerful domestic roles, senior women, in particular, work with their adult sons in order to transmit the domestic resources necessary to secure the filial services to which they feel entitled. In China's fast-changing economic environment, fuelled by the modernization process, the dynamics of family culture still present effective tools and strategies for individual citizens seeking to protect and advance their own interests.

Popular support for the social security system in urban China: evidence from a cross-sectional survey in a Chinese city

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin Li ◽  
Alex Jingwei He
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Social Security Reforms ◽  
Welfare Attitudes ◽  
People’S Attitudes

AbstractBecause the legitimacy of the welfare system ultimately depends on citizens’ support, it is vital to understand public welfare attitudes. By analysing primary data collected in Zhuhai City, this study examines Chinese people's attitudes toward contributory social security programmes. The study's bi-dimensional conception of welfare attitudes synthesises the dual roles that people play in social security and examines their respective attitudes. Self-interest and ideology models were both tested in the Chinese context. As ordinary citizens, people's expectation for governmental responsibility in social security appears to be high. As contributors to the system, their willingness to pay premiums is also on the high side. Based on multivariate analysis, this study provides contextual explanations for the attitudinal patterns observed in Zhuhai and interprets the results in reference to the international literature. The article concludes with policy implications for China's social security reforms.

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