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Since 1978, China has transformed from a central planning economic system to an open market economy system, and a great number of industrial workers have been laid off from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and moved to newly established labour markets in this process. As a result, many unskilled and low-income workers have been excluded from accessing decent housing and formal employment. In a deprived inner city in Guangzhou, Xiguan, after 40 years of economic and housing reforms, many low-income residents still have to live in dilapidated, deprived and overcrowded housing conditions. When the Chinese Communist Party obtained control of China in 1949, many rich residents left China, and the Guangzhou municipal government allocated vacant houses in Xiguan to workers through work units. A high percentage of the existing residents moved in during that period because the government sold houses to them at discounted prices during the housing reforms in the 1990s (Yuan et al. 2011).

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Lau, J.Cy. (2020). Introduction. In: Self-Organisation Shapes Travel Behaviours and Social Exclusion in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods of China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2252-9_1

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