Everyday Life Culture, Housing Importance and Housing Satisfaction of Older Korean-Chinese Living in Harbin, China

Aging, Living Arrangements, and Housing in China

Grounded in a literature review, current living arrangements and housing conditions of the elderly in China are investigated with new empirical evidence. Survey data of September 2009 included a total of 692 Chinese households with a focus on elderly members. Major findings are: (1) living arrangements of the Chinese elderly were diverse, but the majority were living independently, or in “empty...

Housing Policy in China

In the last three decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has managed to replace its welfare-based urban housing system with a market-based housing provision scheme. With such significant housing policy changes, the PRC has successfully expanded urban home ownership and impressively increased per capita housing consumption. The housing market has become one of the major pillar industries ...

Sustainable Urban Housing in China

As China is becoming more urbanized, about 3.5 million units of housing are built every year. It is very important to develop sustainable urban housing in China. A team of researchers and developers from the USA and China have worked together to develop several housing projects in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. These designs are neither “hi-tech” solutions nor “super-advanced” technologies. I...

China Senior Housing and Care

Last month, Shanghai has just gone through terrible hot weather that broke the history record of high temperature 140 years ago. There were people dying from the heat, in particular the seniors—one report said that a senior, who didn’t turn on the air-conditioning when staying at home, suffered a heatstroke and died soon after she was escorted to the hospital but turned out being too later. It ...

Housing Preferences of Older Consumers