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Urban villagers as real estate developers: embracing property mind through ‘planting’ housing in North-east China

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  • Haoxuan Sa
  • Anne Haila

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Urban village collectives, as one of the stakeholders of land requisition and development in urbanized China, have gradually been driven into real estate development. This transformation has raised an important question regarding how villagers develop their ‘property mind’. From 2015 to 2017, guided by an abductive institutional economics approach, which holds both original and new institutional economics in dialogue, we addressed this question by conducting fieldwork in Xiaojia village, Northeast China. In Northeast China, unlike in the southern cities, there was no foreign investment and the population was in decline. Nevertheless, the villagers developed housing, first for their own use and then for the market. The resulting evidence indicates the following: 1) property rights are social relations and constructed socially and institutionally; 2) markets are not independent, they are conditioned by the institutional context.

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  • Haoxuan Sa & Anne Haila, 2023. "Urban villagers as real estate developers: embracing property mind through ‘planting’ housing in North-east China," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(3), pages 423-443, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:38:y:2023:i:3:p:423-443
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1888889
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