Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news

Responding actively to city government efforts to increase the supply of low-priced housing for average residents, districts and counties in Shanghai have started choosing locations for the housing projects in their regions.
As of March 21, the locations of 20 million square meters of budget housing projects had been decided, meeting the city government's goal for this year.
Of the projects, over 1,300 hectares of land are new housing centers for residents who have to be relocated from their downtown homes to make way for key urban infrastructure projects, according to Shanghai Housing, Land and Resource Administration. Construction has started on these properties for nearly 200 million square meters of the total 1,000-million-square-meter housing spaces planned for this year.
In addition to suburban districts such as Baoshan, Jiading, Songjiang, Qingpu, Minhang and Nanhui, downtown districts including Xuhui, Pudong, Changning, Zhabei, Hongkou and Putuo have responded well and are offering prime lots for low-priced housing for those who have been relocated.
Xuhui expects to complete the construction of 310,000 square meters of housing in eight residential centers this year, and Pudong plans to start 1.8 million square meters and complete at least 1 million square meters. Changning promises to build 265,000 square meters and Zhabei will contribute its Shaoniancun Rd area for budget housing projects.
Besides the housing projects for relocated families, districts and county are eager to develop their potentials to increase lower-priced homes with common housing projects to benefit low-income residents who have not been able to  enjoy the housing reform policy, and have not purchased homes.
For example, Pudong pledges to provide no less than 1.2 million square meters this year.  Baoshan has decided the locations for 11 land lots with a total low-priced housing space over 1 million square meters, Nanhui 11 lots with 1 million square meters, Minhang four lots with 700,000 square meters and Jiading four lots with 600,000 square meters.  The downtown district Hongkou said it has also decided on its lots for low-priced projects.