The difficulties of housing the Chinese “sandwich class”

ANIL (Jie Chen et Bernard Vorms), octobre 2011
Study appeared in the electronic magazine Métropolitiques.eu

In China, young people from the middle classes are said to belong to a “sandwich class”: they do not have enough resources to buy a property, and yet there are not enough rental properties to accommodate them. In areas where pressure on the property market is particularly high, state benefits fail to compensate a lack of assets.

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