Abstract
Direct state provision of housing remains an important element of housing regime in many countries. This chapter traces recent experience of public housing development in Shanghai. It focuses the roles of two major public housing programmes, namely Relocation Housing and the new PRH (public rental housing) programme, in Shanghai’s recent socio-spatial dynamics. It is shown that the public housing programme in Shanghai is mainly a result of deliberate urban development policy in line with other strategies such as city marketing, and gentrification. Thus we suggest that the Shanghai municipality government appropriates the new public housing regime as institutions to buttress local economic competitiveness. Our analysis is augmented with data from a questionnaire survey of PRH tenants in Shanghai. Finally, we identify challenges for the future development of public housing sector in China.
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By the official exchange rate Shanghai’s GDP was ranked the 13th among all cities in the world in 2011. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP
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In 1987–1988, the standard to qualify for entering this programme was households with housing space less than 2 sqm per person. This standard was lifted to 2.5 sqm in 1991 and 4 sqm in 1995.
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For example, at the end of 2012, the occupancy ratio of Xinning Apartment was only 30 %; Shangjing Yuan Garden’s occupancy rate was much better, around 72 %, largely due to a large rental demand from employees of universities and research institutes around it.
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The research is supported by the funding from NSFC (71173045), Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Key Social-Science Research Project of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (13JZD009), Ministry of Housing and Urban Development of the People's Republic of China (2012–21), and Fudan University 985-III Project (2012SHKXQN012).
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Chang, Y., Chen, J. (2013). Public Housing in Shanghai: A Tool with Multiple Purposes. In: Chen, J., Stephens, M., Man, Y. (eds) The Future of Public Housing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41622-4_4
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