Slums are concentrated urban poverty housing, usually extra-legally and cobbled together from low-quality materials. China does have some of this for migrant workers that do not have authorised housing, but it is at a vastly lower scale than peripheral countries that went in other directions (not run by commies). It's also the exact kind of thing that China addresses on a regular basis. The fact that I qualified with "unauthorised" is meaningful here - China provides free or subsidized housing to the vast majority of migrany workers. There are also very active programs to reduce and eventually eliminate migrant work.
Yes, absolutely. There's a mix of renters (separate housing), free housing, and then dorms/barracks-style living at the factory, usually with free food.
In cities in the coastal southeast there are a lot of neighbourhoods that are "urban villages" where workers, especially from the southwest, go to live. Older apartment buildings, no air conditioning, no elevators, narrow alleys, tiny factories on the first floor, cheap restaurants with dubious sanitation, sleazy hotels (with "massage" business cards littering the streets outside), massage shops with tinted windows, tiny KTVs.
HOWever, these places are not that bad, considering. I've never felt unsafe walking through any, as an obviously foreign person. They are fairly normal working-class areas. Crime rate is higher than in middle-class areas but still lower than the average neighbourhood in most western countries. Wages are low but living costs are also low. They are walkable, inhabitants don't need a vehicle to get necessities or go to work (though most still use scooters or ebikes), and there is always a hus line or even mass transit nearby. Compare to the worse parts of major cities in other asian countries, or latin american countries, or most of the world outside northwest europe/canada/AU/NZ, and these "slums" are fairly livealbe places.
Slums are concentrated urban poverty housing, usually extra-legally and cobbled together from low-quality materials. China does have some of this for migrant workers that do not have authorised housing, but it is at a vastly lower scale than peripheral countries that went in other directions (not run by commies). It's also the exact kind of thing that China addresses on a regular basis. The fact that I qualified with "unauthorised" is meaningful here - China provides free or subsidized housing to the vast majority of migrany workers. There are also very active programs to reduce and eventually eliminate migrant work.
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Yes, absolutely. There's a mix of renters (separate housing), free housing, and then dorms/barracks-style living at the factory, usually with free food.
In cities in the coastal southeast there are a lot of neighbourhoods that are "urban villages" where workers, especially from the southwest, go to live. Older apartment buildings, no air conditioning, no elevators, narrow alleys, tiny factories on the first floor, cheap restaurants with dubious sanitation, sleazy hotels (with "massage" business cards littering the streets outside), massage shops with tinted windows, tiny KTVs.
HOWever, these places are not that bad, considering. I've never felt unsafe walking through any, as an obviously foreign person. They are fairly normal working-class areas. Crime rate is higher than in middle-class areas but still lower than the average neighbourhood in most western countries. Wages are low but living costs are also low. They are walkable, inhabitants don't need a vehicle to get necessities or go to work (though most still use scooters or ebikes), and there is always a hus line or even mass transit nearby. Compare to the worse parts of major cities in other asian countries, or latin american countries, or most of the world outside northwest europe/canada/AU/NZ, and these "slums" are fairly livealbe places.