Life Course And House Tenure

In Western countries, the purchase of housing has always been regarded as the ultimate goal of housing, which is well understood, because the Western countries, the social system is stressed capitalist system of private ownership of the means of. Interestingly, in the socialist system in China, since the beginning of 1979, one of the main goals of the urban housing system reform, but also to promote the privatization of housing ownership, especially since the 1990s, the rate of rapid growth to homeowners. The purpose of this study is to take advantage of Shanghai’s 22-year retrospective longitudinal analysis of data (1990 to 2011) to explore the road of China’s housing privatization, the focus shift from renting to buy a house. Used the Cox proportional hazards model analysis showed that age, educational level, and to increase homeownership rates are positively correlated; marital status change is a more important factor in housing tenure change. Family size, the delicate relationship between the work unit will still affect the access and use rights of the family’s housing choice behavior. Non-state-owned work units are often associated with lower homeownership rates. On the other hand, a member of the Chinese Communist Party and the homeownership rate is proportional to.