Informal housing in China: the main forms and how the government responded to
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2016
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Over the past two decades, China's urban population has increased from 230 million to 550 million. Urban land is not enough, at the same time the city government sold the land to obtain funding, these reasons make the city housing price is too high for many people to afford, thus came out the demands of informal housing. Unlike any other developing countries, there are almost no slums in the cities of China, This phenomenon related to China's population management system, land system and urban management system. In China’s cities, the informal housing exists in the form of work shed and shanty down, and in rural areas, the farmers illegally occupied land to build house for sale or illegally sale their homestead to build house, these kind of house is called limited property house. All of these informal housing has brought great difficulty to land management, in addition, the living conditions of the informal housing residents have aroused public concern, both the central and city government has taken measures to solve the problem.
Based on the above background, the paper uses literature research and case study research method, analysis the cause of China's informal housing first, and then from five cities of typical cases, explains China's informal housing phenomenon and the different policies of the city government.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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