Abstract
While urbanization acts as an engine of economic growth, rising inequality and exclusion within cities derails development progress. In the past 30 years, the population in China has converged to large-scale cities, which brought a severe housing issue, not least for migrants. In order to relieve the tension between the increasing demand for housing and the scarcity of urban resources, research on housing policy in response to urban growth is a matter of cardinal significance. This paper made an effort to explore the mechanism of public housing policies coordinated with urban growth management. Taking Chongqing City as the study area, the system dynamics model was adopted in exploring the coordination mechanism. The impact of the two policies were simulated, including the urban population control and public housing supply. The results indicated that the combined policy could more effectively cope with the possible urban housing crisis under the long-term trend, and promote urban inclusive growth. Meanwhile, the starting time of intervention also has a significant impact on the policy effect. This study shares China’s experience and provides reference for other developing countries to pursue socio-economic sustainability in the process of urbanization.
Highlights
Urbanization has been one of the most significant driving forces of recent global development and acted as an engine of economic growth
The city is the engine of economic growth, and urban growth management is a set of urban development strategy that aims to maintain a balance between efficiency and equity [27]
Through the comparison of the three above groups of policy simulation experiment results, it can be seen that the urban population control policy and public housing supply policy have their own advantages and disadvantages in the implementation effect, and their impact on urban growth are based on different mechanisms
Summary
Urbanization has been one of the most significant driving forces of recent global development and acted as an engine of economic growth. In the past 30 years, the rapid economic growth in China has boosted the development of cities, both in terms of the number of cities and urban population. The rapid growth of population large-scale cities brings about a severe problem, that is, the housing issue of new arrivals. A theoretical analysis framework was established to explore the mechanism of public housing supply on urban economic growth, and analyzed the changes of population and land issues in the process of urbanization in China [15]. Out of curiosity about these questions, this study established an Urban Development Model to simulate the impacts of urban growth management policies and public housing supply policies. The research on the coordination mechanism for public housing policies with urban growth management is helpful to solve the fundamental problems in the process of rapid urbanization in China. China’s experience will provide reference for other developing countries to pursue socio-economic sustainability in the process of urbanization
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