Affordable housing tops govt's agenda
By Cao Li | China Daily | Updated: 2008-01-25 07:28
SHANGHAI: Middle- and low-income families will enjoy better housing conditions in the next five years, the city's Mayor Han Zheng promised yesterday.
About 400,000 families will be given either their own home or a rent subsidy, he said at the first session of the 13th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress.
"A total of 300,000 economical housing units with a combined area of 20 million sq m will be built in the next five years," he said.
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