Urban Public Housing Policy: A Comparative Case Study Of Louisville (US) And Jinan (China)
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Free (open access)
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Volume
39
Pages
12
Published
2000
Size
1,391 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/URS000451
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
Yingshun Zhao
Abstract
Public housing is that housing which is owned and managed by public authorities. Its main role is to supply housing to unprivileged people. Public housing can be found in both capitalist and socialist countries, developed and developing countries. However, different countries have different public housing policies. Different policies have different effects in realizing government's housing objectives. America and China are two influential but different countries in the world. American is the biggest developed capitalist country and China is the biggest developing socialist country. America and China established public housing system in the 1930s and 1950s respectively. Both public housing systems have made significant progress but they also produced some problems after
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