ABSTRACT
Since China’s housing system reform in 1998, the real estate industry of shanghai
has achieved rapid development, and has played an active leading role in the economic
growth. However, the fast development of the real estate market also brought a series of
social problems. The price of the houses is so high that more and more people can’t
afford to buy them. Real estate is related to the people’s livelihood. In recent years, in
order to prevent house price rising rapidly and cope with overpricing in some cities, the
government has stepped up to increase the development of property housing, so that
more middle and low income family can benefit from it.
From the macroeconomic impact, the increase in the investment in affordable housing is
also conducive to economic ‘soft landing’. Affordable housing market has great
potential to bring the development of building materials, cement and steel, light
furniture and related upstream and downstream industries, partially offsetting the impact
on economy from the decline in investment of the real estate. The supply of affordable
housing was mainly targeted at middle and low income class. There are many factors in
influencing the supply and demand of affordable housing. The paper first analyzes and
sums up the development of both domestic and international affordable housing,
followed by the introduction of the construction of affordable housing in Shanghai, then
taking shanghai affordable housing as an example to analyze the influencing factors of
affordable housing and its supply and demand. Through the study, we can find that the
housing price in Shanghai is exorbitant. Under normal circumstances, the higher the
price is, the more demand for affordable housing of the low-income families. However,
through empirical analysis, Shanghai house prices and the demand for affordable
housing does not relate with each other; through multi-analysis we can find the linear
relationship between the developing levels of affordable housing and its influencing
factors; and through contrast of supply and demand of Shanghai affordable housing, we
can conclude that there exists housing shortage in Shanghai.
Innovation of this paper is to use a multiple regression model to analyze the linear
relationship between the developing level of affordable housing in Shanghai and its
influencing factors, and the comparison between the supply and demand of affordable
housing in Shanghai. Especially in the research of the needs in affordable housing in
Shanghai, the paper refers to "five laws" of the per capita disposable income, combines
with ordinary commercial housing price in Shanghai and housing loan interest rates,