【答案解析】Topic: Housing Problem
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the average housing price/unreasonably high housing prices / soaring prices in the real estate sector / prices accelerate / Chinese housing prices have surged / slow-down in house price growth / contain the housing price hike / meet the regulatory requirement / dereliction of duty. of some local governments / The government must show its determination to carry out the measures in its confrontation with the developers. / stabilize house prices / Tight tax, loan and land regulations should be put in place to restructure the real estate industry. / The monetary and taxation policies targeted at stabilizing house prices / Taxes should be levied on unused apartments and laid-idle houses so as to weed out bubbles in the real estate market. / Civil servants can hardly afford to buy housing on their regular incomes. / The market demand is strong while the supply-demand gap is relatively big.
Regulate the practices of real estate agencies
strengthen macro controls on the property market / made amendments to the regulation on administrative punishment for price violations / hand out more stringent penalties for illegal price manipulations / Some developers are only interested in building large-sized luxurious apartments for high profits. / Some developers had also hoarded land and houses to profit from rising prices / Some land set aside for building houses had not been developed in a timely manner / A number of developers spread false information to create public fear of housing shortages to drive up prices. / carry out checks on land that is lying idle, sending a warning to developers to either quicken their construction plans or hand back the plots to the government / Some of the new houses are deliberately reserved by the developers.
Encourage people to rent houses
Many people buy houses to speculate, which pushes up prices. / Owning a home often ties up a large sum of money that might be invested more safely and more lucratively elsewhere. / Home ownership involves its own versions of throwing money away, like property taxes and the costs of borrowing. / Government should build and purchase houses and flats and rent them to low-income residents at affordable prices. / increase the cost of buying a home and push down prices
Withdraw the limitation on land supply
house prices include the land price, cost of construction materials / high land prices / tight supply could drive prices up / the cost of real estate development has been closely tied with the different local governments" interests. / adjust land provision / avoid supply bottlenecks / Governments at various levels should make it easier for people to build their own houses and diversify housing supply means in the country. / simplify the approval procedure for land requisition / increase land supply / part of the developers" profits are used for bribing the government officials / Local governments benefit by selling land.
Make policies favoring the construction of economically affordable houses
adjust the structure of house supply / The government should make plans renovate the houses of families that live in dangerous conditions. / Governments departments should be held accountable for providing needy or less-paid population with accommodation. / Governments should develop more low-rent, affordable housing projects to the service of China"s large group of low and middle-income house-buyers. / provide low-rent housing for poor residents.