Measures for improving housing affordability in China

Comments on Li Shi “Social security and housing the poor in China”, 28/01/2011, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/01/28/social-security-and-housing-the-poor-in-china/

AS Professor Li said, there are no easy solutions to social affordable housing.

Beyond the three schemes, I think the government should consider a specific tax that targets the wasteful empty properties that exist in many Chinese