Changes in the Structure of Public Housing Provision in Urban China
Changes in the Structure of Public Housing Provision in Urban China
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DOI：
10.1080/0042098966529
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发表时间：
1996-11
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影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Fulong Wu
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作者：
Fulong Wu
社会主义国家的住房供应通常以公共住房为主。然而，公共住房的提供是一个复杂的过程，涉及到各种社会机构。就中国而言，“国家提供”的简单概念涵盖了市政管理和单位住房之间的巨大差异。由于对公共房屋的结构缺乏了解，导致近年推动房屋“商品化”的努力未能成功。本文试图从住房供给结构的角度审视中国公共部门住房的变化，揭示国有单位在住房供给结构中的关键作用。住房改革导致了住房补贴计划的一些重大变化。然而，这种转变远非公共住房库存的商业化或私有化过程。在生产方面，工作单位确实不直接参与住房建设。然而，在消费方面，由于政治经济的原因，国家工人的低收入迫使工作单位制度仍然是SHP不可缺少的一部分。国家单位在社会主义市场经济中的作用日益增强，反映了社会主义市场经济的内在矛盾。通过市场机制实现劳动再生产和生产公有制的持续存在。这些变化无疑对国家的城市发展和城市空间结构产生了深远的影响。
Housing provision in a socialist country is generally characterised by the dominance of public housing. However, provision of public housing is a complicated process, which involves various social agencies. In the case of China, the simple notion of 'state provision' covers huge differences between municipally-managed and work-unit housing. The lack of understanding in the structure of public housing provision has led to unsuccessful efforts in promoting the 'commercialisation' of housing in recent years. This paper, adopting a perspective of structure of housing provision (SHP), attempts to examine the changes in public-sector housing in China and to reveal the critical role of state work-units in the SHP. Housing reform has led to some significant changes in the SHP. The transformation, however, is far from a process of commercialisation or privatisation of public housing stock. On the production side, work-units do withdraw themselves from direct involvement in housing construction. However, on the consumption side, the low incomes of state workers, due to the political economy, have forced the work-unit system to remain as an indispensable part of the SHP. The increasing role played by state work-units shows the contradiction embedded in a socialist market economy—i.e. the reproduction of labour through market mechanisms and the persistence of public ownership of production. The changes certainly have profound implications for the nation's urban development and urban spatial structure.