Study On Governments' Responsibilities For The Construction Of Low-Rent House In Our Country

Housing issues are well-being issues which are essential for the whole society to be stable and harmonious. However, since the capitalization of housing distribution in 1998, we have stopped the welfare-oriented public housing distribution system and the property right has to be gained by purchasing or building. On one hand, it can relief the economy burden for government and units. And it has started housing consumer market, promoted the commercialization of housing and driven the entire development and maturity of real estate business. On the other hand, with the increase of need, the price of houses went up gradually and many middle low-income people had large difficulties to buy a house. Meanwhile, the inequality of housing initiated many other social problems. The government who was responsible for social justice could not be dispensed with duty. Our cheap-rent house policy exactly arose under such background. And it became the effective means to safeguard the housing rights of the disadvantaged and to realize housing equity. It greatly showed governments' responsibilities during this process.Governments' responsibilities in cheap-rent house area should be understood from a wider perspective. It means that our governments should be able to make an active response to civil needs and adopt active measures so as to realize the public needs and benefits. But problems about the lack of governments' responsibilities for the construction of cheap-rent houses appeared in the actual implementation of the policy, which have been the narrow coverage of the safeguarded of cheap-rent house policy, the deficiency of the construction funds, the incompletion of the operating mechanism and the lack of the cheap-rent house sources etc. It is essential for the governments to sum up the experience and the lessons and to reinforce their responsibilities for the construction of cheap-rent houses step by step in order to realize the equity and justice in the housing area.This article is surrounded by cheap-rent houses at the core of the responsibility-oriented government. From the history and current situation of cheap-rent houses, it analyses the phenomenon and the deep causes for the lack of governments' responsibilities for the construction of cheap-rent houses. It also offers the comparatively all-round thinking about how to reinforce governments' responsibilities for the construction of cheap-rent houses.