Urban economic reform and public housing investments in China
Chen Xiangming
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Gao Xiaoyuan
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The authors examine the characteristics and determinants of urban public housing investments in the People's Republic of China. After discussing the characteristics of the state controlled urban housing sector through the 1970s and the market oriented reform in the 1980s to commodity urban housing, they use regression analysis to estimate the effects of several factors on urban public housing investment in 1984 and 1987. The role of the state, in housing investment in China's cities weakend, and the effect of reform - related factors became stronger. State redistribution maintained a stronger effect on inland cities than in coastal cities, where deeper market oriented reform further dampened the states infllu
Shelter -- China
Housing -- China
Urban Economics -- China
Urban Affairs Quarterly
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