Exploring the determinants of residential satisfaction in public rental housing in China: a case study of Chongqing
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Exploring the determinants of residential satisfaction in public rental housing in China: a case study of Chongqing Xiaolong Gan1 · Jian Zuo2 · Emma Baker2 · Ruidong Chang3 · Tao Wen1 Received: 24 March 2018 / Accepted: 25 June 2019 © Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract This research examines residential satisfaction in a large Public Rental Housing (PRH) program in the developing municipality of Chongqing, a city located in western China. Twenty-three critical factors were identified through intensive literature review and incorporated into a large-sample survey of eight residential estates of PRH in Chongqing. The survey data were analysed using factor analysis, one sample T-test, stepwise multiple regression analysis, and ANOVA. The results showed generally, the residents neither expressed satisfaction nor dissatisfaction with their current housing situation in the estates sampled. Five domains of residential satisfaction were identified ranging from dwelling features, dwelling facilities, public facilities, neighbourhood environment to housing policy. Factors in the domain of dwelling features, dwelling facilities and housing policies were found to make positive contribution to the residential satisfaction, while negative contributions were made by the factors in the domains of public facilities and neighbourhood environment. Three key determinants of overall residential satisfaction were identified using multiple regression, namely public facilities, neighbourhood environment and housing policies. In addition, the results revealed that age, education, family income, residence length and housing type have significant impact on residential satisfaction with PRH programs. Consequently, related policy interventions could be introduced to improve the residential satisfaction in public rental housing. Keywords Residential satisfaction · Public housing · Homeownership · Neighbourhood environment · China
1 Introduction China has experienced rapid urbanization for the past three decades, which has resulted in accelerated development of the urban property market (Hwang et al. 2018). Nearly all major cities have experienced substantial house price growth in the last decade. For instance, the national mean house price more than tripled between 1998 and 2014: from to 1854 RMB (~ US$270) per sqm to 5932 RMB (~ 860 US$) per sqm in 2014 (Shi * Jian Zuo [email protected]; [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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et al. 2016). Homeownership has become a dream for China’s ‘sandwich class’ (Huang 2012) of working poor, whose wages are too low to afford home ownership, but too high to qualify for traditional public housing (Huang 2012). As house prices continue to increase in China, it is not just lower income and lower educated working poor who are unable to afford home ownership, but middle-income and relatively educated households are also increasingly trapped within the sandwich class (Mok and Lau 2014), or forced to mo
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