Impact of urban form on housing affordability stress in Chinese cities: Does public service efficiency matter?

Jiuwen, Sun; Xiaoxu, Xing; Qiangmin, Xi; Weihao, Shi

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2023.104682

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“…The second measurement is affordability of housing, which is often thought to be intrinsically linked to the usefulness of housing. Affordability of housing could be calculated by two categories of index, of which one is absolute index (housing expenditure) (e.g., [57,58]) and another is relativity index (e.g., the ratio of housing expenditure to income) (e.g., [59]). Since low-income households are more inclined to rent houses in the inflows, the rent-to-income ratio is often used as a measure of the housing affordability for this group at their destination [60].…”

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Association between Hometown Landholdings and Housing Quality of Rural Migrants in Urban Areas: Evidence from China

Wang,

Luo,

Gong

2024

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Urbanization progress in developing countries is reflected in the urban living conditions of their rural migrants. Housing quality, in particular, is linked to migrants’ social integration and development of human capital. In China, where urban housing is highly stratified by urban citizenship via the “hukou” or household registration system, improving housing quality is a top priority for the central government in its pursuit of human-centered urbanization. Despite some social and economic elements affecting migrants’ housing quality being documented, few studies have analyzed the determinants of rural migrants’ housing quality from the perspective of rural landholdings or possession of use rights of rural lands, which is endowed by the land system of China. Using large micro-data from the China Migrant Dynamic Survey (CMDS), this study investigates the association between hometown landholdings and rural migrants’ housing quality in their host cities. The empirical results suggest that possessing rural landholdings in their hometown is negatively correlated with rural migrants’ housing quality in their host cities, wherein rural migrants’ hukou transfer intention is found as an intermediary factor. Furthermore, the heterogeneity of the relationship across demographic characteristics and regions was investigated. In addition, short-term revenue derived from hometown landholdings is also verified to have a very limited positive effect on migrants’ housing quality. Land transfer policies customized for subgroups of rural migrants across sociological attributes and urban stratification are concluded finally.

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