Access to Housing and Community Resources in a Chinese City

住房是一种稀缺和有价值的资源，特别是在欠发达国家的城市群中。这项研究将调查中国大城市天津的住房获取情况和居住社区的质量。在过去的40年里，中国的城市在国家社会主义框架内发展起来，提倡平等主义思想，有组织的住房和服务分配制度是基于公共投资而不是私人投资。指导这项研究的核心研究问题是，在这样的体系中，住房和城市基础设施方面的不平等存在着什么，以及哪些因素与更有利的结果相关，即更好的住房和更好的社区。这项研究将为揭示国家社会主义经济制度的不平等特征的基础提供重要的见解。这也为未来研究向市场经济转型的影响提供了一个重要的基线。

Housing is a scarce and valued resource particularly in the urban agglomerations of less developed countries. This study will examine access to housing and the quality of neighborhoods in which people live in a large Chinese city, Tianjin. Chinese cities have developed over the last forty years within a state socialist framework where an egalitarian ideology was promoted, and organized systems of housing and service allocation were based on public rather than private investments. The central research questions guiding this study is what inequalities in housing and urban infrastructure survive in such a system, and what are the factors associated with more favorable outcomes, that is better housing and better neighborhoods. This study will provide important insights into the bases of inequality characteristic of a state socialist economic system. It also provides a crucial baseline for future studies on the impact on the transition to a market economy which is beginning in China.