A Case Study of Affordable Housing in a Medium-Sized City in Central China

作     者：Junzhe Wan Zongbo Tan 

作者机构：School of Architecture Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture》 (土木工程与建筑（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第9卷第8期

页      面：985-998页

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 081302[工学-建筑设计及其理论] 08[工学] 081303[工学-城市规划与设计(含：风景园林规划与设计）] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0833[工学-城乡规划学] 083302[工学-城乡规划与设计] 

主　　题：Affordable housing medium-sized city housing plan. 

摘      要：The main task of this paper is to explore the housing condition and housing policy in the vast but long-neglected middle-sized cities in China. Under the requirement of ＂Construction of 10 Million Units in 2011＂ from the central government, the affordable housing has started its nationwide building. Medium-sized cities are facing different developing periods but applying same housing policy as big cities. The paper examines the economic and social condition of the case city to find out the housing problems. It concludes that houses are affordable in these medium-sized cities, but housing policies are not implemented well. The paper proposed that housing affordability in medium-sized city is not about quantity but about quality. To keep houses affordable in these medium-sized cities, housing market, legislation, urban planning, public participation and intensive developments are all important.