Slums were not uncommon in Chinese cities a few decades ago, from the precarious working class districts of 1930s Shanghai to the shanty towns of British-occupied Hong Kong in the 1950s onwards. How did China manage to develop in a way that decreased mass housing precarity? What are the structural reasons behind it?
Because the authoritarian CCP repressed all the poor people into becoming middle class people.
It's absolutely terrible to watch how they just keep raising the standard of living all the time tricking people into thinking that's a good thing!