Changes and Trend of Public Housing Policy in Netherlands, Hong Kong and Mainland China

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10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.95How to use a DOI?

Keywords

neoliberalism, privatization, government, public housing

Abstract

In recent years, policy formulation for provision of public goods, especially for public housing policy is going to be neoliberalism in both global north and global south under the ideology of so-called new public management. Privatization for public housing provision is regarded as a neoliberal policy agenda which is used by local governments for easing financial burden. In this regard, partial privatization of public housing is deemed as quasi-public goods provided by local government to those low-income groups at an affordable price, which tends to reshape local welfare system. This paper will discuss the recent trend of neoliberalism in public housing policies in Netherlands, Hong Kong and Mainland China. Netherlands, a high welfare state, has taken measures to increase home ownership in private sectors and privatization on its social housings. As a typical laissez-faire market, public housing policy in Hong Kong is tend be much more resilience; and its portion of public housing sector will expand with the increased flows of governmental investments; but it still offers subsidized public housing through various provisions. China, as a socialist market economy, whose central government is expected to provide affordable housing (economic comfortable housing and public rental housing) to those urban residents with local hukou through model of public-private partnership. By comparing the recent changes and trend of public housing in these three regions, we conclude that public housing policy is going to be neoliberalism, which will challenge local governments to balance their social equity and economic development.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xingyu Qian
AU  - Yushi Chen
AU  - Ethan Siu-leung Cheung
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - Changes and Trend of Public Housing Policy in Netherlands, Hong Kong and Mainland China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Pedagogy, Communication and Sociology (ICPCS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 428
EP  - 433
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.95
DO  - 10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.95
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