Too Many and Too Few: Inefficiencies in China’s Affordable and Social Housing Sector

J. Albert Cao ()
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J. Albert Cao: Oxford Brookes University

Chapter Chapter 32 in Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, 2014, pp 319-328 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract China has been building a massive number of affordable and social housing units in the last several years to compensate for an earlier lack of attention on housing affordability and housing needs. However, there are many forms of inefficiency in planning, building and using affordable and social housing. This paper attempts to analyze the causes to those inefficiencies from analysis of institutional arrangements inside and outside the affordable and social housing sector by using evidence from fieldwork conducted in August 2013 in Guangzhou. It argues that the solution to these inefficiencies lies on tackling the inadequacies in institutional arrangements in affordable and social housing.

Keywords: Affordable; Social; Housing; China; Institutional; Efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44916-1_32

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