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Introduction: conceptual contexts / Rebecca L.H. Chiu -- Housing policy and urban development in China : the public housing perspective / Jie Chen -- The security-based public housing policy of Hong Kong : a social development interpretation / Rebecca L.H. Chiu, Mandy H.M. Lau and Bokyong Seo -- Housing in Japan's post-growth society / Yosuke Hirayama and Misa Izuhara -- Housing policy challenges and social development in Korea / Seong-Kyu Ha -- Changes in housing policy, housing wellbeing and housing justice in Taiwan / Chin-Oh Chang and Bor-Ming Hsieh -- No one left homeless : universal provision of housing in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat and Meisen Wong -- Housing policy in Malaysia : bridging the affordability gap for medium-income households / Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz, Noor Rosly Hanif, Ainoriza Mohd. Aini and Mahazril Aini Yaacob -- The unfinished agenda : national housing programmes and policy shifts in India / Urmi Sengupta -- Housing affordability problems of the middle-income groups in Dhaka, Bangladesh : a policy environment analysis / Sadeque Md. Zaber Chowdhury -- Vietnam's post-reform housing policies : social rhetoric, market imperatives and informality / Hoai Anh Tran and Ngai Ming Yip -- Housing segmentation and diverging outcomes in housing wellbeing in Bangkok, Thailand / Thammarat Marohabutr -- Housing policy and social development in Indonesia / Connie Susilawati -- Conclusion : Asian housing policies in the social development contexts / Rebecca L.H. Chiu.

"This book investigates how housing policy changes in Asia since the late 1990s have impacted on housing affordability, security, livability, culture and social development. Using case study examples from countries including China, India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors contextualize housing policy development in terms of both global and local socio-economic and political changes. They then investigate how policy changes have shaped and re-shaped the housing wellbeing of the local people and the social development within these places, which they argue should constitute the core purpose of housing policy. This book will open up a new dimension for understanding housing and social development in Asia and a new conceptual perspective with which to examine housing which, by nature, is culture-sensitive and people-oriented"--

Recent rapid housing market expansion in China is presenting new challenges for policy makers, planners, business people, and citizens. Now that housing in middle-income China is driven by consumer choices and is no longer dominated by state policy decisions, housing policy issues in Chinese cities are becoming increasingly similar to those encountered in other global housing markets. With soaring prices and imbalances in housing supply favoring high income groups and housing demand driven by rising inequality in household incomes, many middle and lower-income households face worsening choices in terms of the quality and location of their housing as well as greater financial difficulties, which together can have negative implications for standards of public health. This book examines the impact of these changes on the general population, as well as on aspiring homeowners and developers. The contributors look at the effect on the widening of wealth gaps, slower economic growth, and threats to political and social stability. Though focusing on China, the editors also present discussions of specific policy design challenges encountered in Australia, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK, and the US. This book would be of interest to housing policy makers, as well as academics who are studying the social and political effects of the Chinese housing market.