Heterogeneity and dynamics in China's emerging housing market

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Publication Type Manuscript
School or College College of Social & Behavioral Science
Department Family & Consumer Studies
Creator Yu, Zhou
Title Heterogeneity and dynamics in China's emerging housing market
Description China's emerging housing market, as a critical element of ongoing economic reforms, has drawn increasing attention. The complete abandonment of the socialist housing allocation system in the late 1990s has led to profound changes in housing distribution and consumption in urban China. This article, through analysis of Chinese Census 2000 data and other comparable datasets, studies housing trends in China and in its four autonomous municipalities in the late 1990s. It is found that urban housing has improved by almost all accounts, while housing gaps were rapidly widening. Meanwhile, the mechanisms of housing distribution were shifting. Occupational status and educational level became much more decisive factors. Regional disparities are also evident, due in part to differences in the reform measures undertaken. The drastic changes in the housing sector manifest the phenomenal socioeconomic changes due to twenty years' economic reforms. Reform is successful in increasing distributional inequality as a way to introduce market-based incentives and improve productivity. However, those who were in power have maintained and extended their advantages in the new system. Therefore, while the market is in the making, demographic and institutional factors instead of economic factors are more relevant in housing distribution and residential behavior.
Type Text
Publisher Elsevier
Subject Housing distribution; Housing reform; Chinese Census; Beijing; Shanghai; Tianjin; Chongqing
Subject LCSH Housing policy; Housing; China
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Forthcoming in Habitat International: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01973975
Rights Management Copyright Elsevier. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01973975
Format Medium application/pdf
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ARK ark:/87278/s66t156s
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ID 706228
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66t156s
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