Lisa Jones wrote on Feb 10
th, 2022 at 3:11pm:
Quote:This link doesn't support the pro CCP propaganda you're pushing.
Can't you read. I already said I'm not pushing any propaganda, and many times even today I have invited you to debate the issues, which you refuse - or are incapable of doing.
But I see you are capable of finding something to post, that's better than nothing. Let's have a look.
Quote:[highlight]However, “a decent home for all” remains a distant reality in China, owing to the multi-dimensional inequalities behind the overall high rate of homeownership (Huang & Li, 2014; Wang & Murie, 2000).
The issue is simultaneously lifting out of absolute poverty and housing 1.4 billion people, 700 million of whom are still in relative (not absolute) poverty. But even so China has achieved more in this regard (in such a short time) than any nation in history.
Whereas Oz can't even house all its 25 million people, even though per capita income in Oz is 5 times higher than China.
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Pre-pandemic, homelessness in Australia had climbed by 14% to around 290,000 people in the four years to 2018-19".
Disgraceful, such is the greed of the "free" capitalists.
Quote:Millions of urban poor, young adults, and rural-urban migrants continue to be denied basic housing, and homeownership remains an unachievable dream.
Many have to live in boxy rooms in crumble shacks, low-rises in dusty suburban villages, and tiny dark dorms in bomb shelters and basements under glossy apartment buildings (He et al., 2017; Huang & Yi, 2015; Ma & Xiang, 1998; Wang et al., 2010; Wu, 2002).
What are those 'ancient' figures from 1998 and 2002 doing as references? China's wealth has triple since then.
Quote:Reminiscence of worker insects in a colony and mice in underground cellars, they are called “ant tribe” (yizu) and “mouse tribe” (shuzu), respectively. In particular, younger generations, who grow up in the reform era and do not have access to housing subsidies, face tremendous challenges to attain decent housing and achieve homeownership especially in large cities where housing has becomes prohibitively unaffordable"
And yet housing ownership is going backwards in the US, as noted in the same article.
Quote:Intergenerational transfer has become indispensable for the lucky few young adults to achieve homeownership (Li & Yi, 2007a). Furthermore, with the persistence of the hukou (household registration) System, millions of migrants continue to be denied access to subsidized housing in most cities. Thus despite massive development of affordable housing by the government in recent years, migrants still have to resort to informal housing at marginalized locations, forming slum like settlements (Huang & Yi, 2015).
again 2007 ...obsolete stats, 2015 rapidly receding into the past. whereas massive development of affordable housing continues apace.
Quote:Many cities even require local household registration for households to purchase housing or set strict housing purchase limit for migrants, which prevents better-off migrants to become homeowners (Jia et al., 2018).
Yet, the article began by saying home ownership has reached 87% in China, much higher than the US (see below).
Quote:A great many of them thus have to gamble all their savings on extra-legal housing built on the collective land, known as small property right housing (He et al., 2019).
And that's why China is now clamping down on real estate as an investment vehicle, with the CCP asserting "houses are for living in", soon after the Western-style Evergrande real estate investment disaster. A return to the CCP's socialist ideal is certainly called for.
Quote:For these disadvantaged groups, homeownership and even a decent rental home are beyond their reach.
And yet (from the same article:
"With privatization of existing public housing and massive provision of private housing mainly in the ownership sector, China has transformed itself from a country dominated by public renters to one of the countries with the highest rate of homeownership within a very short span of just two decades. Today China is a country of homeowners with more than 90% of households owning homes (87% in urban and 96% in rural China) (Clark, Huang, & Yi, 2019). At the same time, more than 20% Chinese households own multiple homes, higher than many developed nations (Huang et al., 2020). This achievement is particularly impressive and is in sharp contrast to the recent decline of homeownership rate in the U.S., Western Europe and other developed countries".The article appears schizophrenic, because it ignores the time required to create good housing for 1.4 billion people.
Quote:Ok. Anyone know where Freediver is?
He's not capable of contributing anything useful, like all deluded
"free" sovereign individual ideologues.
Quote:Might need to let him know about this topic I reckon.
You are in need of much more knowledge yourself.