City short of small housing units
4/3/2003 14:22
Shanghai should build more small housing units with an area of
less than 80 square meters to ease the shortage or such housing models, said Mao
Jialiang, director of the Shanghai Housing Development Bureau.
Among the
total 160,000 housing units completed last year, or 18 million square meters,
only 2.2 percent were less than 70 square meters large, 16 percent were 70-100
square meters, 53.9 percent were 100-150 square meters and 27.7 percent were
over 150 square meters.
More than 80 percent of new housing units are
more than 100 square meters large, according to the data.
In the past few
years there has been a surplus of large housing units, Mao said. Shanghainese
had a housing use area of 13 square meters per capita last year with floor space
reaching 26 square meters per capita. So a unit of 70-80 square meters is
suitable for a three member family, Mao said.
The city has a serious
shortage of 70 to 80-square-meter units, Mao said.
Shanghai's real estate
development should be in line with the needs of local residents, he said. They
are encouraging property developers to build more small units, he
added.
Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news
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