Comment on Why China Can’t Sort Out Its Property Market Mess

Sepia@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

The degree of Chinese propaganda in this thread is astonishing even for Lemmy. It’s almost hilarious how the reality (may it be intentional or unintentional) just to make the West look bad and China portraying as the big and only.

There is a lot wrong in ‘the West’ with housing, and countries offering sometime reasonable solutions, and sometimes not. But China has a long way to go also in this respect as the housing condition for a large portion of Chinese people is devastating.

As one research study (here is the archived link) says:

Depending on how one defines homelessness, China has either a very tiny homeless population or an extremely large one. Compared to other countries, there very few vagrants: people living on the streets of China’s cities without means of support. But if one counts the people who migrated to cities without a legal permit (hukou), work as day laborers without job security or a company dormitory, and live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on the edge of cities, there are nearly 300 million homeless.

Unlike the ‘communist’ agenda of China that is conveyed here in this thread, a study’s conclusion is:

Free market fundamentalism is responsible for the emergence of this sort of homelessness in China.

Another commentary concludes,

China is confronted with a housing paradox. The housing market is crashing, yet more than a fifth of the Chinese population is homeless.

It’s really is to find reliable and very good sources on homelessness in China.

It also tells you a lot that as anger mounts in Hong Kong over apartment fires, Beijing warns against ‘anti-China disruptors’ – (archived link).

But I understand that you cannot discuss this here. As some sort of projection of their own behaviour, they accuse others of ‘propaganda’ and ignore the facts. It is likely this why Lemmy is still a niche and, as long as this sentiment prevails, will never meaningfully grow imo.

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