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		<title>The difficulties of housing the Chinese &#8220;sandwich class&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:date>2011-12-21T06:00:00Z</dc:date>
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		<dc:creator> Jie Chen &amp; Bernard Vorms &amp; translated by Oliver Waine</dc:creator>


		<dc:subject>homeownership</dc:subject>
		<dc:subject>housing</dc:subject>
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&lt;p&gt;In China, young people from the middle classes are said to belong to a &#8220;sandwich class&#8221;: they do not have enough resources to buy a property, and yet there are not enough rental properties to accommodate them. In areas where pressure on the property market is particularly high, state benefits fail to compensate a lack of assets. &lt;br class='autobr' /&gt; China has chosen to make home ownership for all an unqualified priority, as well as the basis of its social protection and welfare system. Since 1998, and in less&lt;/p&gt;


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