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A fifth of China’s urban housing supply lies empty, equivalent to 50 million homes
South China Morning Post ^ | 12/31/2018

Posted on 12/31/2018 4:54:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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Send our illegals home and our Millennials will simply move out of their parents’ houses into their own places, which will become more affordable.


41 posted on 01/01/2019 2:25:13 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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Bkmk


42 posted on 01/01/2019 2:59:09 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Personally I’d be reluctant to live in one of those as I’ve seen too many videos of how easily they topple over due to poor foundation.


43 posted on 01/01/2019 4:31:27 AM PST by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be the Cat Food instead.)
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Having the empty buildings is one thing, but when the people move in will there be adequate water, electricity, food and farms to support it?

Also how about the supply of furniture for the homes & offices? How about the phone services, cell phones towers, hospitals & other infrastructure? Are they already in place?

44 posted on 01/01/2019 4:38:42 AM PST by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be the Cat Food instead.)
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Lol, on China they are not political correct like in Europe or the USA. They speak their mind freely to you and will also do so to those referees waves.


45 posted on 01/01/2019 4:42:13 AM PST by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be the Cat Food instead.)
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I don't think it's accurate to say that China is mostly a free market economy.

It is certainly a kind of hybrid (but the Party controls the businesses in a top down manner).

A true market economy wouldn't build this much of an over supply because the "market" would be telling investors the buyers weren't there. It is apparent that there is some kind of artificial central planning construct within China's economy that is misdirecting capital toward housing.

Furthermore, it is one thing for a builder and his investors to fail to predict a market decline, but it is another thing entirely for investors to fail to predict the market enthusiasm for entire cities. When one sees entire cities standing empty, you can pretty much place the blame at the feet of the central planners.

Cities and their vast infrastructure aren't built by builders and their investors in a vacuum. They are built according to plans laid out by--guess who--the government.

46 posted on 01/01/2019 5:04:35 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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But they have laws differentiating city born from rural born rights - changing them to do as you suggest would cause havoc and the system would begin to collapse

You are correct, of course.

I thought it was interesting to know what percentage would be rural if they filled what they have built.

47 posted on 01/01/2019 6:38:14 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Why are there dozens of ‘ghost cities’ in China?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTDU8MZRYw


48 posted on 01/01/2019 12:07:38 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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CHina has been building ghost cities for a couple of decades now. Old news.
49 posted on 01/01/2019 6:24:25 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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