In recent years, Taiwanese politicians, scholars, and social activists have viewed the development of the rental housing market as one means of solving urban housing problems, with some attempting to reduce property speculation by advocating that it is better to rent rather than buy a home. Can a high proportion of rental housing help ease urban housing pressures? This talk will take early twentieth Shanghai as an example, showing how and why it developed into a city of tenants, what kinds of housing difficulties it faced, how contemporaries reacted, and last but not least, the legacy of these experiences for contemporary China and Taiwan.
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