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?
In my original comment I wasn't wondering about the home ownership status of the middle class but rather what their lifestyle is life. As I mentioned earlier, in India most houses employ poor people to do their housework for them. Arrangements like this are founded on and upheld by grotesque levels of ineqality where the most poor people have no chance at education and upward mobility and have to resort to doing grunt work for others. It is a terrible system that has led to the rise in prevalence of apartheid style gated societies.
In my original comment I wasn't wondering about the home ownership status of the middle class but rather what their lifestyle is life. As I mentioned earlier, in India most houses employ poor people to do their housework for them. Arrangements like this are founded on and upheld by grotesque levels of ineqality where the most poor people have no chance at education and upward mobility and have to resort to doing grunt work for others. It is a terrible system that has led to the rise in prevalence of apartheid style gated societies.
it is similar in Sri Lanka as well