Urban Housing Policy in China in the Macro-regulation Period 2004-2007

摘要

中国的住房政策自2004年开始进入一个调整期。中央政府试图采取宏观手段对城市住 房市场进行监管，以便促进住房供给的长期发展，给过热的经济降温。经济过热的部分原因是住 房市场活动过于活跃。中央政府还要求地方政府加强住房保障。由市场和政府联手提供住房，以 满足城市居民的住房需求，保障低收入群体和部分城市特殊人群的居住权。本文简要回顾了1998 年到2007年间中国城市住房市场和住房政策的发展和变化，并从政策目标、初期政策效果和可能 的政策缺陷等方面，分析了2004年到2007年宏观经济调控时期城市住房政策的制定。%Since 2004, China's housing policy has entered into an adjustment period. The central government tries to take macro measures to regulate the urban housing market, with the purpose of enhancing long-term housing development and cooling down the overheated economy, which was partly caused by buoyant housing market activities. Local governments are also required to strengthen the security of housing. Thus, housing supply by both the market and government is to be integrated to meet the housing needs of urban citizens, and to guarantee low-income and some special urban groups' residential rights. This paper firstly gives a brief review of the development and transformation of the Chinese urban housing market and policies from 1998 to 2007, and then it analyses the urban housing policies formulated during the period of macro-economy adjustment from 2004 to 2007, including policy targets, preliminary policy effects and possible policy deficiency.