November 17, the Audit Commission issued a 19 provinces and cities from 2007 to 2009 audit of government investment in affordable housing survey. As low-cost housing facilities inadequate, address, remote, inaccessible, etc., Nanjing and other places in 13 cities, there is low-rent housing with rent problems, housing problems idle, and some places even have to stay home check out the situation . (November 18, "Daily")
When the land as a local government fiscal reality of the second fiscal context, the Government if the low-rent housing built in the city center, it is bound to lose a significant amount of land revenue, built in the suburbs, the Government has undertaken not only on the surface should be obligation to do, while still allowing large land transfer stuffed into their own pockets. This is the location of some local governments chose to place in remote and inaccessible root cause of building low-rent housing.
In contrast the world, many countries, low-cost housing construction site on the life of the poor are taken into account the cost and employment opportunities and wealth against many other factors, because of this, in the United States, the construction of about 130 million units of public housing ( low-rent housing), according to 1991 data, 74% of public housing built in the city center. Japan is the low-rent housing built in the heart of Tokyo and other big cities or crowded areas.
So far, low-rent housing focus on "low cost" contempt "clean living" quirks, some local governments did not rise to the concern and attention. Facts have proved that low-cost housing built in what may seem like a simple location choice, in fact, it is a test of the sincerity of the government care for disadvantaged groups, related to the stability of society, affecting social harmony, local governments must not be taken lightly, as the it.
