Title: The Public Housing and Residential Differentiations
Abstract: China is stilling still facing high speed of urbanization and an increasing gap between high housing prices and relative low family incomes especially for the poor household. The public housing projects that are expected to provide the equality accessibility to good condition housing are encouraged, rapidly planned and built since 2010. Wuhan is the earliest city in China that began to provide public housings. Around 12 million square meters affordable housings were built during the period from 1994 to 2009. Providing public and affordable housing is considered as the processes that ‘pursued social reforms’ and solve the problems of social equity in distribution of resources, opportunities and change the living condition of the people on poverty. However, the efficiency of afford housing in decreasing residential segregation is controversial. The author summary 79 public housing projects completed in the year of 2013 and 2014 in Wuhan, their location, size, accessibility to the commercial centers and schools are discussed. We concluded that the most of public housing projects only changed the geography of poverty and displaced poor people into the new concentrated areas. The spatial concentration of large-scale public housing and long distance from social services and facilities are two main reasons lead to escape of middle-income families and, residential differences and segregation of poor people. The families with low income also face the problem in choosing location of their houses because of the large scale housing projects limited the variety housing locations within a certain period of validity of house buying qualifications.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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