Let's Not Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water: The Role of Urban Villages in Housing Rural Migrants in China

Yan Song, Yves Zenou and Chengri Ding
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Yan Song: College of Economics and Trade, Hunan University and the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3140, USA, ys@email.unc.edu
Chengri Ding: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Urban Planning Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD20742, USA, cding@umd.edu

Urban Studies, 2008, vol. 45, issue 2, 313-330

Abstract: In the era of China's economic growth and urbanisation, providing adequate and affordable housing for rural—urban migrants in urban areas is crucial for the success of China's multifaceted reforms. Yet the urban housing provision system has overlooked the needs of rural migrants since the reforms. Urbanising villages, a unique product of China's urbanisation and land reform, provide affordable housing for rural migrants. However, these urbanising villages are rejected by policy-makers due to their associated social and environment problems. In this paper, a multinomial logit model of housing type choice is adopted, in which people choose from a number of mutually exclusive housing types. Regression results indicate that rural migrants are shunned by the urban housing market. It is argued that, without accompanying programmes that include rural migrants in the urban housing market, policies that focus on demolishing urbanising villages could be misguided.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098007085965

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