Cui Junru, Arundel Rowan
Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Hous Stud. 2024 Mar 20;40(2):279-301. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2329138. eCollection 2025.
Housing system transitions often involve successive but overlapping periods of reform with crucial implications for housing inequality dynamics. Building on welfare regime and market transition discussions, this paper considers how the shifting roles of the state, market, and family in housing provision in China have led to changing housing tenures and differentiated access to them between populations with varying socio-economic resources. Drawing on two national datasets, our analyses reveal that the four decades of reforms dramatically upended urban China's tenure structure with market homeownership becoming the dominant tenure. Nevertheless, we find a substantial and increasing role of the family in housing provision, especially for people with fewer socio-economic resources. The advantages associated with better institutional resources under the previous socialist housing system not only persist in accessing state-provided tenures but have also extended their influence into market housing. Meanwhile, homeownership outcomes have become increasingly polarized among groups with different income and education levels. Our findings expose the reproduction and apparent amplification of tenure-related housing inequalities over the period of housing regime transformation.
住房制度转型通常涉及连续但重叠的改革阶段，这对住房不平等动态具有至关重要的影响。基于福利制度和市场转型的讨论，本文探讨了中国住房供应中政府、市场和家庭角色的转变如何导致住房保有形式的变化，以及不同社会经济资源群体在获取住房保有形式方面的差异。利用两个全国性数据集，我们的分析表明，四十年的改革极大地颠覆了中国城市的住房保有结构，市场自有住房成为主导的住房保有形式。然而，我们发现家庭在住房供应中的作用显著且不断增强，尤其是对于社会经济资源较少的人群。在前社会主义住房制度下与更好的制度资源相关的优势，不仅在获取国家提供的住房保有形式方面持续存在，而且还将其影响力扩展到了市场住房领域。与此同时，自有住房的结果在不同收入和教育水平的群体之间变得越来越两极分化。我们的研究结果揭示了在住房制度转型期间，与住房保有形式相关的住房不平等的重现和明显加剧。
