Study On Construction Of Affordable Housing For Urban Residents

Housing rights is the basic right of citizens, and to meet the housing needs of urban residents is the obligation of modern government. Although the current urban residents affordable housing construction made some achievements, because of the unilateral emphasis on economic development for a long time, the government stressed to the real estate industry development, and neglected construction of affordable housing for urban residents. Compared with common commodity residential house, affordable housing construction lagged behind; coverage of affordable housing is too narrow; housing needs of a large number of the low-income of town are not being met. Our country now is in the social transformation period, but due to the unsound market system development, inaccurate position of the government functions, as main body of the construction of urban residents affordable housing, goverment problems such as functions absence, offside in existing in the construction of affordable housing. Investigate its reason, is mainly because of unmatching of financial power and administrative authority of central government and the local government; unclear knowledge of the government’s main responsibility in the construction of urban residents affordable housing; government self-interesting based on the assumption of the "economic man"; incompetence of policy implementation. To solve the government function problems existing in the construction of the current urban residents affordable housing, and promote urban residents affordable housing construction, the government must transform function--straighten out the central and local government accountability relations and improve the policy implementation capabilities; improve the public service function and clarify main responsibility of government in the construction of urban residents affordable housing; strengthen the social management function and overcome self-serving of government as "economic man".