Commodification of Housing With Chinese Characteristics

Abstract

In its attempt to reform the housing system, China has rapidly marketized but not privatized the housing production process and system. In contrast, the consumption of housing is privatized quickly but marketized slowly. Yet, the housing allocation process still largely relies on the old system of heavy subsidization. Nonetheless, housing subsidy has been curtailed and the growth in home ownership and the future pegging of rent and price with household income would dwarf the housing provider role of the government. The commodification process necessitated new government roles since government support in infrastructure and superstructure is essential for the healthy functioning of the newly emerged housing market. Overall, retention of the public ownership of the development companies and the housing financiers differentiate the Chinese housing reform process from those of other market and post-socialist economies. Copyright 2001 by The Policy Studies Organization.

Industrialized Housing in China: A Coin With Two Sides

“…The spatial distribution of the respondents' working locations covers the northern (36%), eastern coastal (32%), western (11%) and southern (21%) regions of China. as the housing industry in China mainland has only been in existence since the land use reform in 1987 (Chiu, 2001), the experience of the respondents is limited, with 12.8% being involved in the housing and construction industry for less than 5 years; 44.7% for 5 to Downloaded by [New York University] at 16:58 19 July 2015 reduction of construction waste on site, the reduction of air, dust and noise pollution during on-site construction activities, the conservation of construction material, etc., and the survey result supports this in the context of prefabrication. The case studies recounted later provide more information demonstrating the level of environmental benefits that can be achieved by IH.…”

Class Formation and Consumption among Middle-Class Professionals in Shenzhen

“…Another is that patterns of Chinese consumption are not always defined by class. This is because state subsidies of urban consumption, especially on housing, did not disappear completely (Davis 2000;Chiu 2001). Also, generation and gender influence the consumption of new goods and services as much as income level and class (Davis 2000).…”

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“…As already stated we attribute the developments described to the retrenchment of the welfare state retrenchment and the substitution of welfare policies with the affordability mantra, accompanied by the marketisation of housing care. The transfer of housing provision to the market has been described by some authors as the commodification of housing (Forrest and Murie, 1990;Malpass and Murie, 1999;Chiu, 2001;Allen, 2006). Edgar et al (2002:33) have defined the complex process of the commodification of housing as: the increasing dominance of the market in the distribution of housing.…”