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  • Yeah I should have clarified that when I said “that sounds incredibly low” I wasn’t talking about relative to other countries I was talking about my perception of how many vacant homes there were in china. Before reading the article I thought it was wayyyy more than that.

    Anectodatally I’ve heard similar things from people who have visited china and talked to locals who would complain about the quality (primarily the aesthetics and lack of individuality) of buildings there. I feel the solution to that problem is actually building more/ different houses though ironically.



  • 65 million is about 5% of the population of China, I think that’s a fine amount of excess so people living communally have an easy option to move out to and for young adults moving out of home. I don’t think impact on environment/ economy is that big a deal from my perspective. My perspective being someone who pays over 10 times the amount of rent my parents did, housing being such a large expense of mine that it can be considered my only expense and everything else is a rounding error and being constantly stressed about having a place to live. I would have 0 problems if my government were to vastly increase its investment in housing even at the expense of the environment.