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The Universal Integration of Housing Security System

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As a basic welfare need, housing is an important component of the social security system. With market-oriented reforms to the housing system, the living conditions of urban and rural residents alike in China have improved substantively.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Article 2 of the Measures for Low-rent Housing Security issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development.

  2. 2.

    Ibid.

  3. 3.

    Ibid.

  4. 4.

    Calculation results based on materials provided by Xiamen Construction Bureau and the Office of Affordable Housing when receiving the interview by our research team in May 2011.

  5. 5.

    See Article 8 of the Measures for Low-rent Housing Security issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development.

  6. 6.

    50,000 Sets of Public Rental Housing in 5 Years, Xiamen will Realize Blueprint for Home Ownership, Xiamen Evening News, September 16, 2011.

  7. 7.

    Xiamen took the lead in launching the first batch of public rental housing in June 2007, which were known as social security rental housing.

  8. 8.

    According to materials collected by the research team in 2012.

  9. 9.

    Ibid.

  10. 10.

    See Article 2 of Administrative Measures for Affordable Housing, [2007] No. 24, of the Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development.

  11. 11.

    Ibid.

  12. 12.

    Ibid.

  13. 13.

    Ibid.

  14. 14.

    See the website of the Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development: http://www.mohurd.gov.cn.

  15. 15.

    See Huang [1, 2].

  16. 16.

    Wang and Cui [3].

  17. 17.

    See Zhang [4].

  18. 18.

    See Gu [5].

  19. 19.

    See Article 39 of Regulations on the Administration of Social Security Housing in Xiamen.

  20. 20.

    For example, on December 26, 2012, Zhai Zhenfeng, former director of the Real Estate Management Bureau of Erqi District, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, was reported to resell the affordable housing for profit. Similar cases also occurred elsewhere.

  21. 21.

    Jim [6, p. 144].

  22. 22.

    Ibid.

  23. 23.

    Kazuo [7].

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Jing, T. (2021). The Universal Integration of Housing Security System. In: The Welfare System of Universal Integration in China. Understanding China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4839-7_14

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