Housing Reform and its Impacts on the Urban Poor in china

ID:	HARP-620
Title:	Housing Reform and its Impacts on the Urban Poor in china
Source:	Housing Studies, Vol. 15, No. 6, 845-864, 2000
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Year:	2000
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Keywords:	China/Chinese, economic, social, and cultural rights, human rights, movement and residency, residence status, right to housing, migrants/migration, standard of living
Abstract:	New patterns of residents have emerged in China as a result of the many changes experienced in the housing sector in the late 1980s. As a result, housing areas of different standards for different social groups became a dominant feature of large Chinese cities at the end of the 1990s. This article addresses the urban poor’s housing situation under this reform. It involves an assessment of the implications of recent housing reform policies for the disadvantaged groups. The paper identifies two major groups of urban poor in Chinese cities: the poor among the official urban residents and the poor rural to urban migrants. It concludes that while housing problems of the official urban poor have been recognized, there is no formal policy in relation to housing provision of the unofficial poor.
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