Urban Housing Policy Review of China: From Economic Growth to Social Inclusion

Urban Housing Policy Review of China: From Economic Growth to Social Inclusion

Deng, W.
Hoekstra, J.S.C.M.
Elsinga, M.G.

Architecture and The Built Environment

OTB

2015-04-09

This paper reviews the housing policy of China from 1949-2013. It examines the housing tenure change, policy instruments, and impacts social structures in different time periods. After the welfare period of 1949-77, the dual provision period of 1978-1998, and the market dominant period of 1999-2011, China’s housing policy was again reformed after 2011. The new policy focuses increasingly on social inclusion ra-ther than merely on economic growth. In this perspective, this paper analyzes the interaction between housing policy and other reform processes such as corporation and welfare reform, hukou reform. This paper argues that housing policy is closely linked to the ideological and institutional transitions in China. It serves as an instru-ment to fulfill the comprehensive economic and social goals. It has been shaped by, but is also shaping the institutional context.

housing
policy review
China
social inclusion

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Delft University of Technology, OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment

2015-04-10

OTB Working papers 2015-01

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