20 minutes' drive from Shanghai's financial district of colours, dozens of migrant workers are ready to give up the old shipping container homes, more unusual solution, the fate of the housing shortage in China faces is to be demolished.
Cheap, but more people crowded blocks are cleared in a part of China, "urbanization" the steps of the new leader of China sports. Its purpose is to cost about $six trillion in infrastructure, including housing, an estimated 4 million people over the next ten years become urban residents.
But, ironically, the so-called "urban villages" demolition delete stock of cheap housing is very targeted fuel, immigration, did not provide enough replacement units. Generally erect expensive apartment buildings, by the city government land sales to developers.
Problem, the government how to meet its ambitious goals.
"On the one hand, the law does not allow, Li Pingshui:" former farmers to expand rural migrant workers housing, on the other hand, the local government had no money to build affordable housing, a senior lawyer Landesa rural development research institute in Beijing.
Around 1.3 million Chinese live in small, subdivision of room rent out former village farmers being spread, according to a government investigation.
Policies provide government to build houses razed to the ground of the old unit of "urban villages" building a net loss, and according to the urban planners and scholars, while blocking the private rental market, for decades has made China's large-scale urban migration.
For those who on the thin profits, such as after the transformation of the container in Shanghai the plight of immigrants in the city life rigorous selection is proposed.
"They can't just ask me moving, I have so many products that I sell., Li Yanxin said:" so many things worth at least tens of millions of yuan, the farmers owned a small convenience store in anhui province, near from his container. His profits as a result, his ability to pay for his juvenile education - rely on cheap rent, he found that the village in the container.
Local officials policy, muscle to clear these websites are often behind illegal notice the non-agricultural land allocated to the villagers, cannot be used for commercial purposes, the statement of the residence. Land reclassified as "city" to sell for big profits.
"Not everyone can live in a high-rise, especially for those of us who work in the recycling business," Zhang Baofa container rent used by people to the shortage of cheap housing in Shanghai one more creative solutions.
Embarrassing photos circulating on the Internet container village, a local government official, vowed to delete the site in a matter of days. On Thursday, after four years of operation, they announced lee store was cancelled.
"This is the land of the village is divided into land I borrowed. I buy a container. I rent out. I want to know, if it is illegal," zhang said.
Independent and inequality
China urban slums of other developing countries, due to lack of visible part of the community in Beijing, such as xin zhuang, about 3.4 million migrant domestic common house.
High white wall of green lawn hidden xinzhuang around 10000 residents from luxury apartment blocks. Three black chicken scratch blue grey water along a dirty public toilet of the gutter. About 12 square meters room every three families of the house, is a kind of economic material benefit of 500 yuan ($80) a month.
"A regular apartment will be more comfortable, but it's about 2000 yuan a month. This is too many people who live here. They want to, can to save them. We fill in the lowest niche," said the landlord Dong Gang, is now a two-story farmhouse before its concrete structure, divided into about 30 makeshift room.
One of 1000 of the indigenous inhabitants of the pp has been leased to the immigration of 20 years. Refers to the complex partitioning method, dong cannot expand beyond the footprint of the original home, hinders the investment, improve the housing quality.
"In Beijing for the past two years, they have" clean up "crowded mineral rights - which caused many in rent and power, said:" hu xingdou, farmers problem of expert at the university of Beijing institute of technology.
Over the next two years, the Beijing city is expected to make immigration to rent, but not in the city of self-built housing units. Even so, many immigrants have not qualified to rent, and the government built the number of units are often short of the number of migrants displaced.
"There is this type of housing, because almost all the city has a policy, immediately removed" village in city ", "" billion Chinese city army" author Tom miller, according to estimates.
Urban village
Twenty years, China's local government houses immigrants have been able to ignore the problem, because the makeshift villages and other arrangements, which can hold about 40% of the immigrants. The rest of the live in factory dormitories or tent, and in the construction site of the pre - overall housing.
Said Li Jinkui comprehensive development institute in shenzhen, China, with the vigorous development of China's cities and export industries, private housing helps maintain the labor cost is cheap. Has spent the past 25 years, he reckons, shenzhen house to rent in the "coverage" in the 2000 annual income - now the population is estimated at 50000 people.



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