Inclusionary Housing: An Evaluation of a New Public Rental Housing Governance Instrument in China

Inclusionary housing (IH) is a regulatory instrument adopted by local governments in many countries to produce affordable housing by capturing resources created through the marketplace. In order to assess whether it is efficient, scholarly attention has been widely focused on its evaluation. However, there is a lack of studies evaluating IH from...

Effective Public Rental Housing governance: tenants’ perspective from the pilot city Chongqing, China

In the past decade, Public Rental Housing (PRH) has become the program of providing affordable rental housing to low- and middle-income households in China. Even though descriptions of the governance results are numerous, the previous studies are not underpinned by a theoretical foundation from a governance perspective, nor have they...

Embracing market and civic actor participation in public rental housing governance: new insights about power distribution

In recent decades, government intervention in welfare states has witnessed a shift from ‘government’ to ‘governance’: policy making shifted from hierarchical government steering to mixed forms involving government, market and civic actors. Such terminology has also entered Chinese policy language on public rental housing (PRH) provision. To...

Chinese Social Housing Governance: Three Levels of Government and the Creation of Hybrid Actors

Chinese Social Housing Governance: Three Levels of Government and the Creation of Hybrid Actors

Paper presented at ENHR Uppsala workshop program WG24 Social Housing, Organisations, Institutions and Governance,