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Zhang, Xing Quan

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“…The state attempted to mobilize the retired employees and homeowners of work unit housing neighborhoods by rebuilding their territorial awareness. A shared responsibility between the neighborhood organizations, work units, and migrant residents demonstrated the mixes of institutions and the interaction of different co-ordinations, attempting to replace the traditional approach of socialist hierarchical governance through the state [59]. Work-unit as the top-down social system was used to provide welfare and housing for urban workers employed by state-owned enterprises [41,50].…”

Section: Reconnecting the Work Unit System To The Neighborhood Organizationsmentioning

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Grid Governance in China under the COVID-19 Outbreak: Changing Neighborhood Governance

Zhu

Jianhui

2021

Sustainability

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Housing commodification seems to suggest that a process of a state is embracing private governance. However, private governance in Chinese neighborhoods is a two-way trajectory. This paper examined two types of housing neighborhoods, namely, a work-unit housing neighborhood and gated commodity housing to understand the changes in neighborhood governance. It is interesting to observe that during the Covid-19 epidemic period, the state government enhanced its presence and public trust in neighborhood governance by changing the former ways of self-governance. As a strategy for the state to return to local governance, the grid governance is the reconfiguration of administrative resources at a neighborhood level and professionalizes neighborhood organizations to ensure the capacities of the state to solve social crises and neighborhood governance. The potential side effects of changing neighborhood governance are that while the implementation of grid governance has improved internal connections among residents, the empowered neighborhood governments acting as the “state agent on the ground” leads to an estrangement between residents and private governance. The underdevelopment of neighborhood autonomy is not only due to the restriction of state government, but more importantly, the reciprocal relationship of state-led neighborhood governance in the context of housing privatization development in China.

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Section: Reconnecting the Work Unit System To The Neighborhood Organizationsmentioning

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Grid Governance in China under the COVID-19 Outbreak: Changing Neighborhood Governance

Zhu

Jianhui

2021

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Section: Redistributive Mechanisms and The Role Of The Work Unitsmentioning

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Young People's Housing Opportunity in Post-reform China

Deng

2018

Architecture and the Built Environment

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This paper explains the development of the urban housing system in P. R. China from 1949 to 2011 with an emphasis on the factors driving housing inequality in each policy period. We argue that the logic underpinning the housing policy had shifted from socialist redistribution to the stimulation of growth in the process of market economy reform and has been shifting toward social inclusionary growth since the 2010s. Over the course of time, two institutional factors (work units and household registration/hukou) have played a key role in determining individual households' housing opportunities. The role of the work units has gradually waned since the 2000s, but the hukou system continues to be important. In the last part of the paper, we set forth the latest changes in Chinese housing policy. Since 2011, the central government has been striving toward a more comprehensive system of housing provision with the aim of making the housing market more inclusive (though not necessarily more equal). Finally, we express concern about an emerging though embedded source of housing inequality: the unequal distribution of family wealth.

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“…Housing had gone through a stage of retrenchment from its role in the provision of socialist welfare goods. That role was taken over by a system of market allocation in which real estate developers replaced work units as the main housing providers (Zhang, 2002). § 2.1.2 Market transition and household registration (hukou) reform Given China's long agricultural tradition, the government had never supported mobility.…”

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Redistribution, Growth, and Inclusion: The Development of the Urban Housing System in P. R. China, 1949-2015

Deng,

Hoekstra,

Elsinga

2018

Architecture and the Built Environment

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This paper explains the development of the urban housing system in P. R. China from 1949 to 2011 with an emphasis on the factors driving housing inequality in each policy period. We argue that the logic underpinning the housing policy had shifted from socialist redistribution to the stimulation of growth in the process of market economy reform and has been shifting toward social inclusionary growth since the 2010s. Over the course of time, two institutional factors (work units and household registration/hukou) have played a key role in determining individual households’ housing opportunities. The role of the work units has gradually waned since the 2000s, but the hukou system continues to be important. In the last part of the paper, we set forth the latest changes in Chinese housing policy. Since 2011, the central government has been striving toward a more comprehensive system of housing provision with the aim of making the housing market more inclusive (though not necessarily more equal). Finally, we express concern about an emerging though embedded source of housing inequality: the unequal distribution of family wealth.

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Cited by 22 publications

References 11 publications

Grid Governance in China under the COVID-19 Outbreak: Changing Neighborhood Governance

Grid Governance in China under the COVID-19 Outbreak: Changing Neighborhood Governance

Young People's Housing Opportunity in Post-reform China

Redistribution, Growth, and Inclusion: The Development of the Urban Housing System in P. R. China, 1949-2015

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