Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128508 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 198
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
In the last three decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has managed to replace its welfare-based urban housing system with a market-based housing provision scheme. With such significant housing policy changes, the PRC has successfully expanded urban home ownership and impressively increased per capita housing consumption. The housing market has become one of the major pillar industries in the country's economic boom. However, affordable housing development has been greatly lagging behind the ever-increasing housing needs of a large lower-income population in the country, while housing price bubbles cast a shadow on sustainable economic development in the PRC. The main reasons for such challenges include the inefficiency of financial tools to regulate the housing market; and the discrete interests among the central government, local governments, and real estate developers. Within the context of the ongoing global financial crisis, it is even more critical to balance the PRC's housing development, both to address the people's housing needs, and to maintain sustainable growth.
Subjects: 
Peoples Republic of China
Housing Policy
Real Estate Reform
Sustainable Economic Development
JEL: 
O20
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Creative Commons License: 
cc-by Logo
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
899.79 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.